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The fall of the FAO Food Price Index continues
In October 2023, the average value of the FAO Food Price Index was 120.6 points, which is 0.7 points (0.5%) lower than in September, indicating a continuing downward trend. The index was also 14.8 points (10.9%) lower than the corresponding figure for the same period last year. This slight decline in October reflects a fall in the price indices for sugar, cereals, vegetable oils and meat. At the same time, the price index for dairy products has moved to growth, ProAgro Group reports, citing the October report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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World Pork Prices Rise for the Sixth Month in a Row
In July, the average value of the FAO meat price index was 117.8 points, which is 0.3% lower than in June and 5.1% lower than in the same period in 2022. This was reported by the FAO.
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Meat Prices Rise Around the World
The FAO Meat Price Index averaged 114.5 points in April, up 1.3% from March but 6.1% below the same period in 2022.
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World meat production increased 45% in the last 20 years
The FAO has published the World Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2022.
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Mykola Solsky and representatives of FAO discussed the possibility of strengthening support for the Ukrainian agricultural sector
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky held a meeting with the head of regional programs of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Europe and Central Asia Raimund Yelet.
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UN Office for Food and Agriculture Organization to be created in Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers has agreed to sign the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the establishment in our country of the Project Office and the provision of technical and humanitarian assistance to the state.
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FAO continues to support Ukrainian farmers and rural population
Raimund Yelet, FAO Regional Programme Manager for Europe and Central Asia, paid his first visit to Ukraine since the escalation of the war to express FAO's commitment to continue providing emergency agricultural support to the most vulnerable populations and ensuring the sustainability of local and global agricultural supplies.
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AUPB to join project to support agricultural producers in war conditions
The Ukrainian Agrarian Council together with partner associations, in particular the Association of Ukranian Pig Breeders (AUPB) and the Association of Milk Producers (AMP), has enlisted the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support domestic producers in war conditions.
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FAO Launches New $17 Million Project to Help Ukrainian Farmers
In order to overcome the consequences of the war in Ukraine on the global agricultural sector, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a new project worth $17 million to help Ukrainian farmers maintain the expected July-August harvest and ensure the export of essential agricultural products to world markets. This was reported July 6 by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.
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Why in August it is critical for Ukraine to free the south and unblock the ports?
Ukraine and the world will have bread and meat? Have the logistics problem been solved? Or why in August it is critically important for Ukraine to free the south and unblock the ports.
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Why in August it is critical for Ukraine to free the south and unblock the ports? — Andrei Yarmak
Ukraine and the world will have bread and meat? Have the logistics problem been solved? Or why in August it is critically important for Ukraine to free the south and unblock the ports. The answers to these questions can be found in a longread by Andrei Yarmak, an economist at the Technical Cooperation Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
