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World food price index

September 16 , 2023 226 days 268 0
  • The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) released this price index.
  • It tracks the most globally traded food commodities.
  • It consists of the average of five commodity group price indices – cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar.
  • The August reading was the lowest since March 2021.
  • It is also 24% below an all-time high reached in March 2022 in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • The FAO forecasted world cereal production this year at 2.815 billion tonnes.
  • This is slightly lower from a previous estimate of 2.819 billion.

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