A number of countries, including China, are stockpiling for an uncertain pandemic season amid concerns over whether the global supply chain for food can remain intact as COVID-19 cases rise worldwide.

Russia Global food prices rise after Russia pulls out of wartime grain agreement with Ukraine International wheat prices rose by 1.6% in July, the first increase in 9 months ...

LONDON — Global prices for food commodities including rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain ...

The other food category adding most to the overall food price rise is sugar. Here, again, unfavorable weather, including frost damage in Brazil, has reduced supply and inflated prices.. Cereals have ...

The rebound in the Food Price Index was driven by a 12% month-on-month rise in the price of vegetable oils, the agency said, boosted, in part, by increases in global crude oil prices.

The figure for June marks the fastest rate of inflation, which measures how quickly prices are rising, since January 2024.

Global food prices rose for the 12th month in a row in May, up nearly 40% year over year, according to the United Nations’ food price index. Last month was also the sharpest monthly rise in ...

This rise was primarily driven by higher pig meat prices, coupled with strong import demand for bovine meat. The meat price index averaged 121.6 points in April, up 3.7 points from March and 5.0 ...

Global food prices saw the largest jump in 2.5 years in September, ... World Food Price Index Marks Biggest Rise Since March 2022. Sugar prices saw the biggest gains on Brazil, ...

Summary. Although January saw a slight easing in the rate of food producers input cost inflation, it was still the second-sharpest rise in a decade after December's all-time high.

A number of countries, including China, are stockpiling for an uncertain pandemic season amid concerns over whether the global supply chain for food can remain intact as COVID-19 cases rise worldwide.