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Food Outlook - December 2009

Year of publication 2009

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title Food Outlook

Series number 1560-8182|0251-1959

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Recent developments in world agricultural markets for basic food commodities have raised concern about a possible return to another round of high prices. In general, however, the difficulties facing markets today are different from those experienced during the 2007/08 food price surge. The FAO Food Price Index, a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, has risen uninterruptedly since September 2009, a trend shar ed by nearly all its components.

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