FAO’s Food Price Index (FPI) for October was up 3.1 percent from the previous month. Year on year, the October FPI was up 6.5 percent. (All figures are adjusted for inflation; the index baseline comes from 2014 to 2016 prices.) Nearly all the price [...]
Adjusted for inflation, the September FAO Food Price Index was reported up 2 percent from August and up under 6 percent YOY. This is the fourth straight month of monthly gains but only the second straight month of YOY gains. Month on month, most [...]
FAO reports that its Food Price Index (FPI) fell in May for the fourth consecutive month, bringing the Index to its lowest level since December 2018, a 17-month low. Adjusted for inflation, May’s FPI fell 2 percent from April and was down 6 percent [...]
FAO’s Food Price Index for March 2020 fell 4 percent from February (adjusted for inflation). The Price Index for March was still up 2.7 percent YOY, though that is the lowest monthly YOY increase in seven months. For 2020 to date, the Food Price [...]
For October 2019, FAO reported its Sugar Price Index (deflated) up 1.7 percent from the same month last year and up 5.8 percent from September 2019. This is the seventh consecutive up month following almost two years of year-on-year declines. The composite Food Price [...]
FAO reported its sugar price index at 152.8 (deflated), up from January, enough to bring it to a ten-month high but still down 4.3 percent from February 2018. The sugar index has now reached a 22-month streak of YOY declines, just one month shy [...]
