The latest issue of the FPMA (Food Price Monitoring and Analysis) Bulletin FAO/GIEWS monthly report has been released. The monthly FPMA Bulletin reports food price trends at world, regional and country level with a focus on countries where prices of one or more basic food commodity are at abnormal high levels in main markets. 

Main highlights of this issue are the increase in the export prices of maize from the United States of America and at country level, a spike in the prices of maize and wheat flour in Zimbabwe. In East Africa, severe dryness affecting production prospects for the 2019 harvests continued to support the increases in prices of maize.