How food inflation in India has been de-globalised, what factors can drive prices now

Source The Indian Express

Posted on January 23, 2024

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World food prices have crashed from the peaks scaled in 2022, especially post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) widely-tracked food price index averaged 143.7 points in 2022 and 125.7 points in 2021, while 98.1 and 95.1 in the preceding two calendar years. But the index – a trade-weighted average of world prices of a basket of food commodities over a base period value, taken at 100 for 2014-16 – fell 13.7% to 124 points in 2023……

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