FAO’s proposal for a Global Food Import Financing Facility (FIFF)

13 Sep 2022

Virtual Event

This informal briefing seeks to (i) provide an overview of the facility, its basic nature as an emergency measure, the overall costs of the facility under different eligibility assumptions, as well as the proposed credit conditionality, (ii) discuss the possibility and the limits of extending the idea of an import [...]

World food commodity prices dip for fifth month in a row in August

02 Sep 2022

Rome

Rome – The barometer for world food commodity prices declined for the fifth consecutive month in August, as quotations for most benchmark items dropped, according to a new report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The closely watched FAO Food Price Index averaged 138.0 points in August, [...]

How can global value chains enhance sustainable agricultural development?

14 Jul 2022

Sheikh Zayed Centre and Zoom

  Over the past three decades, an increasing share of agricultural production has been traded through global value chains. The 2020 edition of FAO’s flagship report The State of Commodity Markets (SOCO) estimated that about one‑third of global food and agricultural exports are traded within a global value chain. This growth [...]

Promoting food market transparency and policy coordination: The G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)

13 Jul 2022

Sheikh Zayed Centre and Zoom

The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) was launched in 2011 by the Group of Twenty (G20), with the objective of enhancing market transparency, reducing the likelihood of sudden food price spikes and improving policy coordination in times of high food price volatility. AMIS does so by monitoring global markets of [...]

Benchmark FAO Food Price Index shows dip in international prices of cereals, vegetable oils and sugar

08 Jul 2022

Rome – The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 154.2 points in June 2022, down 2.3 percent from May. The Index, which tracks monthly changes in the [...]