{"id":4358,"date":"2019-08-05T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"world-food-prices-slide-marginally-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/05\/world-food-prices-slide-marginally-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Prices Slide Marginally in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By FAO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global food commodity prices saw a slight decline in July, led\nby lower prices for some cereals, dairy and sugar, more than offsetting firmer\nprices for meat and oils.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO’s Food Price Index (FPI)<\/a><\/strong> – a\ntrade-weighted index that measures prices of five major food commodities on international\nmarkets – averaged 170.9 points in July 2019, slipping 1.1 percent below its\nlevel in June but up 2.3 percent from a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\nCereal Price Index<\/strong> dropped by 2.7 percent from June but is\n4.1 percent above its level in July last year. The overall decline was mainly\ndriven by a slide in wheat and maize prices, reflecting, among others, ample\nexport supplies. By contrast, the rice index marked its fifth successive month\nof stability amid generally quiet market activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\nVegetable Oil Price Index<\/strong> rose by 0.8 percent in July led\nby firmer soy and sunflower oil prices that balanced out a further drop in palm\noil values. The decline of the latter was largely driven by continued seasonal\nsurge in crop production in Southeast Asia combined with sluggish global import\ndemand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\nMeat Price Index<\/strong> posted a 0.6 percent increase from its\nslightly revised value for June, marking its sixth month-on-month price\nincrease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ovine and bovine meat prices rose\nfurther in July, boosted by robust import demand from Asia and weakening\nsupplies from Oceania due to a seasonal decline. On the other hand, prices for\npigmeat dropped slightly after four months of continued increases, reflecting\nlarger export availabilities from Brazil and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\nDairy Price Index<\/strong> declined by 2.9 percent from June,\nrepresenting the second consecutive monthly drop, led by a decline in butter\nquotations followed by cheese and whole milk powder.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\nSugar Price Index<\/strong> declined by 0.6 percent from June 2019,\nmainly driven by expectations of higher sugarcane yields in India, the world’s\nlargest sugar producer. The decline in world prices was partially contained by\na strengthening of the Brazilian Real against the US Dollar, a move that tends\nto restrain exports from Brazil, the world’s largest sugar exporter. Read the original\narticle<\/a> on FAO NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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