São Paulo – Food prices gauged by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remained on the downward curve that is now several months long, with a 1.2% reduction in April from March this year. The FAO Food Price Index scored 171, the lowest since 2010. In April from April 2014, prices were down 19.2%, according to numbers released this Thursday (7th).<\/p>\n
The FAO’s index tracks five different commodity groups: dairy, sugar, cereals, vegetable oils and meat. The only group whose prices went up was meat – for the first time since August of last year. <\/p>\n
FAO notes that cereals production this year could even fall short of 2014’s, due to smaller planted area. The report released in tandem with the index issues a forecast that food costs will likely continue going down, as a consequence of abundant supplies and the high US dollar. <\/p>\n
For the next few months, the organization expects global sugar and meat outputs to increase, and remarks that fish is becoming increasingly popular in the world diet, as a consequence of fish farming investments. The FAO also claims poor countries should benefit from the low food prices. <\/p>\n
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