Pedro Miguel locks along the Panama Canal. Photo: Gonzalo Azumendi via Getty Images.
Abbreviations and Acronyms
- AIS
- Automatic Identification System
- AMIS
- Agricultural Market Information System
- BEC
- Broad Economic Categories
- CH-FSD
- Chatham House Food Security Dashboard
- CH-MAT
- Chatham House Maritime Analysis Tool
- CHRTD
- Chatham House Resource Trade Database
- DAP
- diammonium phosphate
- EIA
- Energy Information Administration
- EIU
- Economist Intelligence Unit
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FEWS NET
- Famine Early Warning Systems Network
- GCC
- Gulf Cooperation Council
- HS
- Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
- IEA
- International Energy Agency
- IMTS
- International Merchandise Trade Statistics
- IOC
- international oil company
- ISIS
- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
- ITF
- International Transport Forum
- JODI
- Joint Organisations Data Initiative
- K
- potassium
- LIFDC
- low-income food-deficit country
- MAP
- monoammonium phosphate
- MENA
- Middle East and North Africa
- MOP
- muriate of potash
- MoU
- memorandum of understanding
- N
- nitrogen
- NGO
- non-governmental organization
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NSR
- Northern Sea Route
- NWP
- Northwest Passage
- OECD
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- P
- phosphate
- PIANC
- World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure
- SITC
- Standard International Trade Classification
- SPR
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- UAE
- United Arab Emirates
- UN
- United Nations
- UNCLOS
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNCTAD
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- USAID
- United States Agency for International Development
- USDA
- US Department of Agriculture
- WFP
- World Food Programme
- WTO
- World Trade Organization