Prices of coarse grains followed mixed month-on-month trends in March and April 2026 across the subregion. In the Sudan and South Sudan, prices continue to be at significantly elevated levels, underpinned by conflicts and insecurity and severe macroeconomic difficulties, including [...]

Across monitored markets in countries in the Sahel and along the Gulf of Guinea, prices of maize, millet and sorghum followed mixed month‑on‑month trends in March and April 2026 but generally remained lower than a year earlier.   In Mali, wholesale prices [...]

Prices of the key food staple, maize, remained broadly stable or declined in March and April 2026, reflecting ample supply conditions across much of the subregion, anticipated large carryover stocks and expectations of bumper maize harvests in 2026. In several [...]

In April 2026, domestic prices of rice generally increased month‑on‑month in most countries of the subregion, reflecting increased production and marketing costs associated with surges in fuel and energy prices. Despite this month-on-month increase, overall rice prices were lower year-on-year [...]

Wheat export prices remained stable or increased month-on-month in April 2026 across the subregion’s three key exporters, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In the Russian Federation, wheat export prices (offer, f.o.b., deep‑sea ports) remained stable in April, supported by [...]

In April 2026, wholesale prices of white maize followed mixed month‑on‑month trends in the subregion. In Mexico, prices exhibited mixed trends in April across monitored markets and were mostly below their year-earlier levels, on account of higher year‑on-year imports between [...]

In April 2026, wholesale prices of yellow maize exhibited mixed month‑on‑month trends in the subregion. In Argentina, after short‑lived declines in the past two months, prices of yellow maize rose by 5 percent in April, despite the ongoing harvest and [...]