Asia Pacific Food Price and Policy Monitor (APFPPM). May 2016, Issue 29

Abstract

APFPPM consists of two major sections, including Regional Overview and Country Overview: Regional Overview section mainly focuses on the monitoring of price changes in overall food, rice, and wheat in the region. Country Overview section covers three subsections, including Food Prices, Price Forecast, and National Policy Development. In the Food Prices sub-section, the core team of APFPPM chooses about five countries or so every month and observe the price changes in selected commodities. The Na tional Policy Development sub-section focuses on the policy changes and developments in the agriculture and food sector in the region, the team members regularly goes through numerous newspaper articles across the region, and choose and summarize the stories that are relevant to food and agriculture. In the Price Forecast sub-section, the team members choose two countries and one commodity from each chosen country and conduct small simulation for them.