{"id":14525,"date":"2025-08-10T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:07:44","slug":"fao-food-price-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fao-food-price-index\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO Food Price Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>FAO Food Price Index Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the United Nations&#8217; Food and Agriculture Organization said that world food commodity prices rose in July to their highest in over two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About FAO Food Price Index<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Food and Agriculture Organization\u2019s (FAO) food price index is a <\/span><b>measure of the monthly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> change in international prices of a basket of food commodities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of the average <\/span><b>of five commodity group price indices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (cereal, vegetable, dairy, meat and sugar), weighted with the average export shares.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Base year:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2014-16<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Facts about the Food and Agriculture Organization<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>a specialized agency of the United Nations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Members:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of 195 members \u2013 194 countries and the European Union, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its sister bodies are the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reports published by the FAO:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <\/span><b>State of the World\u2019s Forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SOFO), The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA), The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO), The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarter:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rome (Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/world-food-prices-2-year-high-rising-meat-edible-oils-fao-says-2025-08-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities. 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