Title: FAO Food Price Index | World Food Situation | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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FAO Food Price Index
The FAO Food Price Index continues to rise unabated
Release date: 06/05/2021

Content: 7 January, 4 February, 4 March, 8 April, 6 May, 3 June, 8 July, 5 August, 2 September, 7 October, 4 November, 2 December. The FAO Food Price Index continues to rise unabated
Release date: 06/05/2021

» The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 120.9 points in April 2021, 2.0 points (1.7 percent) higher than in March and as much as 28.4 points (30.8 percent) above the same period last year. The increase marked the eleventh consecutive monthly rise in the value of the FFPI to its highest level since May 2014. The April rise was led by strong increases in the prices of sugar, followed by oils, meat, dairy and cereals. » The FAO Cereal Price Index averaged 125.1 points in April, up 1.5 points (1.2 percent) from March, resuming its climb after a short-lived one month respite in March, and stood 25.8 points (26.0 percent) above its April 2020 level. Upward pressure from smaller-than-anticipated planting intentions in the United States of America (USA) and concerns about crop conditions in Argentina, Brazil and the USA pushed maize prices up 5.7 percent in April. With overall tightening maize supplies, on top of continued strong demand, maize prices stood 66.7 percent above their values one-year-earlier and remain at their highest level since mid-2013. Among other coarse grains, international barley and sorghum prices continued to soften, falling 1.2 and 1.0 percent in April, but remained 26.8 and 86.5 percent above their respective values in the corresponding month last year. International wheat prices were generally steady in April, remaining over 17 percent above their April 2020 values.