Prices of coarse grains followed mixed trends in recent months in the subregion. Prices reached new record highs in South Sudan and the Sudan, underpinned by tight supplies and severe macroeconomic difficulties, including currency weakness. In the Sudan, prices are [...]

Prices of coarse grains remained stable or registered seasonal increases in April and May 2024 in countries of the Sahel and along the Gulf of Guinea. In some countries of the subregion, prices of coarse grains remained higher on a [...]

With the harvest underway across the subregion, maize grain prices posted moderate declines in several countries, as local market supplies were augmented with the newly-harvested crops. However, cereal production in 2024 is expected at below-average levels across the subregion and [...]

In May 2024, domestic rice prices followed mixed trends and were well above their levels from the previous year in most countries of the subregion. In Viet Nam, wholesale rice prices remained stable in May despite the peak of the [...]

Export prices of milling wheat from the Russian Federation continued to increase in May 2024 due to unfavourable crop conditions for the 2024 harvests but were still 11 percent lower year-on-year, supported by two consecutive years of strong harvests. In [...]

Wholesale prices of white maize exhibited mixed trends across the subregion in May 2024. In Guatemala, following a short-lived increase in prices in April, owing to a delayed start to the 2024 main season planting activities, prices declined slightly in [...]

Wholesale prices of rice were stable or rose in May 2024 in most countries of the subregion, despite the ongoing or recently-completed harvest. In Brazil, prices remained stable in the flood-affected Rio Grande do Sul, while they rose sharply, by [...]