FAO reported its January food price index up 2.7 percent from December and up 8.8 percent YOY (adjusted for inflation). Month on month, its component subindexes were either up (cereals, oils, sugar) or nearly flat (meat, dairy). Year on year, nearly all subindexes made [...]
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 [...]
The FAO Food Price Index rose for a second straight month. Adjusted for inflation, the index rose 1.2 percent month on month (MOM) in July after gaining 2.3 percent in June. The sugar price index gained for a third straight month, albeit more slowly [...]
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 February, FAO is reporting its overall Food Price Index (inflation adjusted) down 1.0 percent from January 2020, though still up 8.1 percent from February 2019. Year on year, the individual subindexes are up by high single digits or higher. The one exception is [...]
In December 2019, the FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) saw growth of 12.5 percent YOY (all figures adjusted for inflation). The FFPI saw YOY in the seven months from July through December, allowing the index to close 2019 down just 0.2 percent YOY. Of [...]
