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Daily Food Prices (Global)

Value chain disruptions are expected to trigger sudden price changes and increase in price volatility. This is data from the FAO Daily Prices pages which monitors consumer prices of 14 main food products in all countries and compiles the average price change for each product since 14 February 2020.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Food and Agriculture Organization FAO
  • Food security
Language
  • English
Use limitations No known access and use constraints
Temporal extent's start date February 14, 2020
GeoNames
  • Global
Completeness This dataset is regularly updated to include new data as they become available.
Process Step Data scraped from https://datalab.review.fao.org/dailyprices.html#, cleaned
Lineage Numbeo.com, https://fpma.apps.fao.org/giews/food-prices/tool/public/#/home, https://datalab.review.fao.org/dailyprices.html#
Responsible party FAO datalab: ESS-datalab@fao.org ODM: https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/contact/
Metadata creator information ODM: https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/contact/
Attributes This dataset includes information on the daily prices of food from February 14, 2020 in the following categories: apples, bananas, meat - cattle, meat - poultry, eggs, lettuce - chicory, bread and other bakerswares, cheese, milk, onions, oranges, potatoes, rice, and price change by country.
License Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Copyright Yes
Keywords food prices,coronavirus
Date uploaded June 1, 2020, 03:20 (UTC)
Date modified January 7, 2021, 14:46 (UTC)