Food prices
Briefs
2021
Digital finance and inclusion in the time of COVID-19. Lessons, experiences and proposals
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted digital financial inclusion trends across the world in many and complex ways. In developing and [...]
Tool
2021
FAO Food Price Index
The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of [...]
Briefs
2020
Adjusting business models to sustain agri-food enterprises during COVID-19
Across the world the COVID-19 crisis is compromising agri-enterprises’ ability to continue business as usual and, in some cases, is [...]
Briefs
2020
Measures for supporting domestic markets during the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa
As COVID-19 reaches a growing number of communities across Africa, governments’ efforts to contain the spread of the virus need [...]
Briefs
2020
Europe and Central Asia: Regional food market situation and policy bulletin in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
According to the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS), cereal production in 2019 and the estimated closing stock [...]
Data and statistics
2020
Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Tool
The Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Tool was developed in the wake of the international food price crisis of [...]
Report
2019
FAO Food Price Index 2019
The FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food [...]
Tool
2019
Food Price Monitoring and Analysis Tool (FPMA)
The Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) database includes over 1400 monthly domestic retail and/or wholesale price series of major [...]
Issue paper
2018
Agricultural Policy Incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Last Decade (2005–2016). Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) Synthesis Study. FAO Agricultural Development Economics Technical Study 3
The study summarizes the results emerging from the 2017 update of the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) [...]
Tool
2017
The Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA)
The Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) initiative promotes evidence-based decision making by collecting and disseminating information on policy [...]
Issue paper
2017
What did we Learn from the Bout of High and Volatile Food Commodity Prices (2007-2013)? FAO Commodity and Trade Policy Research Working Paper Series. No. 54
This research paper looks at the crises in international agricultural markets during the last decade and draws out some lessons. [...]
Tool
2011
FAO’s initiative on soaring food prices. Guide for policy and programmatic actions at country level to address high food prices
This guide is designed for those involved in developing action plans to address the current issue of high food prices. It [...]
Report
2009
Initiative on soaring food prices. Country responses to the food security crisis: Nature and preliminary implications of the policies pursued
The report intends to examine the short-term measures adopted by some 81 countries and is intended for policy makers and [...]