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 World food commodity prices dip for fifth month in a row in August 02 Sep 2022 Rome Rome – The barometer for world food commodity prices declined for the fifth consecutive month in August, as quotations for most benchmark items dropped, according to a new report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The closely watched FAO Food Price Index averaged 138.0 points in August, [...] |
.jpg) How can global value chains enhance sustainable agricultural development? 14 Jul 2022 Sheikh Zayed Centre and Zoom Over the past three decades, an increasing share of agricultural production has been traded through global value chains. The 2020 edition of FAO’s flagship report The State of Commodity Markets (SOCO) estimated that about one‑third of global food and agricultural exports are traded within a global value chain. This growth [...] |
.jpg) Promoting food market transparency and policy coordination: The G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) 13 Jul 2022 Sheikh Zayed Centre and Zoom The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) was launched in 2011 by the Group of Twenty (G20), with the objective of enhancing market transparency, reducing the likelihood of sudden food price spikes and improving policy coordination in times of high food price volatility. AMIS does so by monitoring global markets of [...] |
 Benchmark FAO Food Price Index shows dip in international prices of cereals, vegetable oils and sugar 08 Jul 2022 Rome – The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 154.2 points in June 2022, down 2.3 percent from May. The Index, which tracks monthly changes in the [...] |
 OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2022-2031 29 Jun 2022 The OECD and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will present their joint annual medium-term market projections for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish during an online press event on Wednesday 29 June 2022, starting at 10:00 CEST. The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook provides an assessment of the prospects of national, regional and global agricultural commodity [...] |
