Results filtered by: Food insecurity
- Domestic rice prices showed mixed trends in May and June 2024 and were well above their year-earlier levels, driven by increases in production and transport costs, [...]
- The Government will procure 1 million tonnes of rice and 100 000 tonnes of paddy from the ongoing Boro crop (November-May), keeping the procurement rice price [...]
- On 23 October, the Government lifted a ban on the imports of basic commodities, including food products, which had been in place since 2016. The measure [...]
- International wheat prices from the Russian Federation increased in June 2024 for the third consecutive month, mainly due to unfavourable weather, mixture of frosts in some [...]
- On 30 September 2022, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Congo announced the exemption of 16 commodities from customs duties and Value Added [...]
- Wholesale prices of white maize showed mixed trends across the subregion in June 2024. In Guatemala, prices were stable month‑on‑month as downward pressure from adequate market [...]
- In mid-August 2015, Russia announced that it will plans to add new countries to its Western food import ban. The measure is in response to countries [...]
- Panama is in the process of negotiations with one of the world’s largest (unidentified) rice companies regarding the signing of a contract to package and re-export [...]
- The Government of Brazil increased the minimum support prices for 2017 summer crops, including rice, maize and beans, to be planted from September. Under this mechanism, [...]