Prices of coarse grains followed mixed month-on-month trends in October and November 2025 across the subregion. In the Sudan and South Sudan, prices continue to be at significantly elevated year-on-year levels, underpinned by conflicts and insecurity, and severe macroeconomic difficulties, [...]

In most monitored markets in countries in the Sahel and along the Gulf of Guinea, prices of maize, millet and sorghum were stable or declined on a monthly basis and they were generally below their year-earlier levels.   In Mali, wholesale prices [...]

Plentiful maize supplies at the subregional level continue to keep prices under downward pressure, although moderate monthly upticks were recorded in South Africa and Zambia, where prices still remain well below year-earlier levels. With early production prospects for the 2026 [...]

In November 2025, domestic rice prices were generally stable in most countries of the subregion, with several exceptions. In Viet Nam, wholesale prices of rice declined month-on-month in November and stood between 30 and 35 percent below their year-earlier levels [...]

Wheat export prices generally remained stable or increased across the subregion’s three key exporters, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in November 2025. In the Russian Federation, wheat export prices (offer, f.o.b., deep-sea ports) were stable for the second consecutive month, [...]

In November 2025, wholesale prices of white maize declined seasonally month-on-month across the subregion. White maize prices contracted for the second consecutive month in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, driven by improved seasonal supplies from the ongoing Primera harvest. Prices were [...]

Yellow maize prices increased month-on-month in most countries in of subregion in November 2025, with the exception of Ecuador and Paraguay. In Argentina, wholesale prices of yellow maize strengthened for the fifth consecutive month in November. Prices were about 45 percent [...]