date:Jan 11, 2013
e in global production and large export availabilities in the 2012-13 marketing season, especially in Brazil, kept international prices down for much of the second half of 2012, the F.A.O. said.
The Food Price Index consists of the average of five commodity group price indices weighted with the average export shares of each of the groups for 2002-04. In total, 55 commodity quotations considered by F.A.O. commodity specialists as representing the international prices of the food commodities are