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The FAO Food Price Index averaged 133.3 points in August 2026, released on 4 September 2026.
That is up 2.5 points or about 1.9% from July's revised 130.8 and the highest reading since November 2022.
It remains nearly 17% below the record peak of March 2022.
Adverse weather and disrupted Black Sea grain shipments from Russia and Ukraine drove the rise.
Sugar led the increase, jumping 11.9% to its highest since June 2025, while cereals rose 2.2% to a level last seen in May 2024.
UN specialised agency leading international efforts to defeat hunger; a forum for negotiation between developed and developing countries and a source of technical knowledge on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and water resources. Publishes the monthly Food Price Index.
GS Paper 3 > Economy: Food Security, Buffer Stocks; GS Paper 2 > Important International Institutions
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Turkey is located between
Answer: Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea
A monthly measure of international prices of a basket of food commodities, based on 2014-2016 = 100.
An autonomous international organisation working with the UN under an agreement; FAO is the oldest permanent one, dating from October 1945.
The method by which each commodity group's index is weighted in the FFPI, using average export shares.