Trends in Global Production, Consumption, and Utilization of Sorghum Timothy J. Dalton and M. Hodjo Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................... 4 2 Land Allocation to Sorghum ................................................................. 5 3 Global Sorghum Production .................................................................. 7 4 Global Consumption of Sorghum ............................................................ 9 5 Patterns of Global Trade ...................................................................... 12 6 Conclusion .................................................................................... 13 Sources ............................................................................................ 15 Abstract Global production and consumption of sorghum has remained constant over the past decade but has shifted continentally and regionally. Despite cultivation across the globe, 20 nations account for 90% of all land allocated to sorghum and of those nations, ten account for 80%. Global patterns of plantings and production indicate that both reached lows in the early 1990s but are increasing through 2018. The long-term patterns also show that there is a statistically significant decline in sorghum production in Asia and the Americas and Carib- bean while an increase in production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Across the globe, sorghum production has shifted away from Asia, and in particular India, and the United States, toward two separate groups of nations: those emerging as surplus producers and serving as granaries feeding the international marketplace for industrialized usage and secondly, nations consuming the grain locally, primarily as a foodstuff with local market appeal and trade with neighboring nations. T. J. Dalton (*) · M. Hodjo Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA e-mail: tdalton@ksu.edu; hodjo@ksu.edu # Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 V. A Tonapi et al. (eds.), Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food – Fodder – Feed – Fuel for a Rapidly Changing World, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8249-3_1 3