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Global food commodity prices generally declined in October, according to the latest FAO Food Price Index and AMIS Market Monitor.

✔ Cereals, meat, sugar, and dairy prices fell
✔ Vegetable oil prices rose slightly
✔ Fertilizer prices also declined

📖 Read the full blog for details: https://www.foodsecurityportal.org/node/3737

FAO Food Price Index, AMIS Market Monitor See Generally Declining Commodity Prices in October | Food Security Portal The FAO Food Price Index fell 1.6 percent in October, driven by lower cereals, dairy, meat, and sugar prices. The October Index was 21 percent below its March 2022 peak.

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Homepage | Food Security Portal The Food Security Portal, facilitated by IFPRI, aims to provide improved food security for the world's poor and increased resilience of global food systems against food and financial crises.

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🌍 New Tool Available!

Food price shocks affect both producers and consumers—and can have major impacts on poverty.

Check out the SSA FSP Food Price Shocks Tool on the Africa South of the Sahara Food Security Portal!

It lets you analyze how price changes affect household poverty in 8 African countries:
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇱🇷 Liberia, 🇲🇬 Madagascar,
🇲🇱 Mali, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇹🇿 Tanzania

📊 A must-use for anyone working in food security and poverty reduction.
🔗 https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/node/3704

Food Price Shocks Tool - Africa South of the Sahara | Tool | Africa South of the Sahara The Food Security Portal's Price Shocks Tool provides an interactive way to explore the impact of price changes on poverty. When you set hypothetical price shock(s) using the tool, net impacts of selected price changes are generated per household and the impact on poverty is automatically calculated...

Despite improvements, Uganda's refugee population continues to face alarmingly high food insecurity

📢 Uganda hosts the world’s 6th largest refugee population.
📍 712,000 refugees (37%) are expected to face acute food insecurity through February 2026.
📉 That’s down from 48% in mid-2025—but still alarmingly high.
💡 More support is needed for both refugees and host communities.

📖 Read the blog post:
👉 https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/node/3711

Despite improvements, Uganda's refugee population continues to face alarmingly high food insecurity | Africa South of the Sahara Due largely to conflict and subsequent instability in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda is currently home to more than 1.9 million refugees. This is the sixth largest refugee population in the world. According to a new IPC alert released this week, despite Uganda’s welco...