06-01-2022, 08:06 PM
06 Jan 2022 07:45PM
(Updated: 06 Jan 2022 07:45PM)
PARIS: World food prices jumped 28 per cent in 2021 to their highest level in a decade and hopes for a return to more stable market conditions this year are slim, the United Nation's food agency said on Thursday (Jan 6).
The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 125.7 points in 2021, the highest since 131.9 in 2011.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/wo...21-2418926
(Updated: 06 Jan 2022 07:45PM)
PARIS: World food prices jumped 28 per cent in 2021 to their highest level in a decade and hopes for a return to more stable market conditions this year are slim, the United Nation's food agency said on Thursday (Jan 6).
The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 125.7 points in 2021, the highest since 131.9 in 2011.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/wo...21-2418926