While world prices have since fallen, agricultural prices and food prices inside many countries did not reflect this change with the same cadence or rhythm having remained “sticky” at high levels for an extended period of time. While the Outlook does not project food prices, there remains considerable interest in how fluctuations in commodity prices translate into changes in the cost of food. For this reason the following section discusses how food prices around the world have changed between the period of peak prices and 2009 as commodity prices have declined.