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Press release… February, 2025… International quotations for sugar and vegetable oils drive FAO Food Price Index lower… Rome – The FAO Food Price Index, the benchmark for world food commodity prices, declined in January, averaging 124.9 points during the month, down 1.6 percent from its December level. The drop was driven by …

Press release… The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) stood at 127.0 points in December 2024, down 0.6 points (0.5 per cent) from November. This decline was driven by decreases in the price indices for sugar, dairy products, vegetable oils and cereals, offsetting increases in meat prices. The FFPI was 8.0 …

Press release… » The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 127.5 points in November 2024, up 0.5 percent from the October level and reaching its highest value since April 2023. The increase was driven by higher price quotations for dairy products and vegetable oils, which slightly outweighed declines in the meat, cereals, …

Prices of all major food commodities, except meat, increase, with largest rise in vegetable oils at 7.3%, reports FAO… Global food prices reached an 18-month high in October, rising 2% from September, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. All major food commodities, except meat, saw price …

Press release… The benchmark for world food commodity prices saw its fastest increase in 18 months in September, with quotations up for all covered commodity groups, led by sugar, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international …

Cereal, meat and sugar prices down in August, while oil and dairy prices increase… Food prices in the world decreased 1.1% year-on-year in August and almost the same from July 2024, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Friday.
 Food prices also decreased by 24.7% from their peak …

Press release… Lower cereal quotations offset higher vegetable oil, meat and sugar prices… » The FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) stood at 120.8 points in July 2024, marginally below its revised figure for June, as a decrease in the price index for cereals outweighed increases in the price indices for vegetable oil, …

Price hikes for vegetable oils, sugar, dairy products offset decline in those for cereals, UN food agency report shows… The index for global food prices remained stable in June as hikes in prices for vegetable oils, sugar and dairy products offset a decline in those for cereals, according to the …

World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in April as higher meat prices and small increases in vegetable oils and cereals outweighed declines in sugar and dairy products, the United Nations’ food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which tracks the most …

Coarse grain production on track to hit an all-time high, pushing up overall supply and trade prospects… 02/02/2024 Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices fell further in January, albeit slightly, led by decreases in the prices of cereals and meat, which more than offset an increase in the …