Global Food Prices Database (WFP)

This dataset contains Global Food Prices data from the World Food Programme covering foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar for 76 countries and some 1,500 markets. It is updated weekly but contains to a large extent monthly data. The data goes back as far as 1992 for a few countries, although many countries started reporting from 2003 or thereafter.

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Source	World Food Programme - VAM
Contributor	WFP - World Food Programme
Date of Dataset	Jan 01, 1990 - Aug 15, 2019
Expected Update Frequency	Every week
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Visibility	Public
License	Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations
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Tags	commodities markets prices