Positive Future News #911 (Feature Photo – Holstein Dairy Cow – Public Domain) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, publishes price increases for primary food groups at the bulk – global trade – level every month. The FAO shocked economists with their March 2022 report. The Food Price Index went from…
Touch the Soil News #1788 (Feature Photo – Wheat Harvest – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Michael Trolove) In many ways, the world is hinged together by food trade. Nations with an ability to grow certain foods, can create a revenue stream by selling to nations unable to grow certain foods. The economics of food trade,…
Touch the Soil News #1774 (Feature Photo– Food Price Index Chart – data courtesy of FAO) The year 2021 made history in that global food prices escalated by 19 percent, sending food price jitters around the world. Fortunately, the food price index for December 2021 when down slightly. The chart above shows how the food…
Touch the Soil News #1764 (Feature Photo – Food Price Graph – Kelp4Less) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is division of the United Nations. Among a variety of duties, the FAO maintains the international Food Price Index. By following price increases in the categories of meat, dairy, cereal grains, vegetable oils and…
Positive Future #872 (Feature photo – Soybeans and Soybean Oils – CCA 2.0 Generic, United Soybean Board) While basic food crops take top billing in our minds, you’re not quite there without vegetable oils. What would we do with lettuce greens and cooking our foods without vegetable oils? The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of…
Touch the Soil News #1744 (Feature Photo – The World – Public Domain) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently reported the latest Food Price Index for February 2021. Over the past 9 months, global food prices have risen 27.5 percent. This spike is unprecedented since the FAO started reporting changes back in 2003.…
Positive Future #793 (Feature photo – Restaurant Closures – public domain) The global food price index has been rising steadily for the past 3 years as economies grew and more people could afford better diets. In 2020, with unprecedented purposeful global economic covid shutdowns, the food price index dropped, making food more affordable as the…
Touch the Soil News #1527 (Feature photo – FAO Logo – Public Domain) The Food Price Index – published the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome – reports that food prices have jumped dramatically on a global basis in 2019. The index stood at 161.5 in December of 2018 and rose to 181.7 in December…
Touch the Soil News #1513 (Feature photo – Migrant Mother Has Lots of Worries – Public Domain Original photo by Dorothea Lange. Colorized by John Boero. – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8b29516.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the…
