PRICE INDICES OF FOOD COMMODITIES

(Cereal Price Index, Vegetable Oil Price Index, Sugar Price Index)

Month: 2026-09

Price Index		Change		%
Cereal	122.8		+6	5.14
Vegetable Oil	198.6		+1.7	0.86
Sugar	114.0		+6.6	6.15

FAO Indices (2024-08 : 2026-09)

FAO’s Food Price Index:

FAO’s Food Price Index (FFPI) consists of the average of five commodity group price indices (the Chart shows only 3 out of 5 indices).

1. The FAO Cereal Price Index: Global Maize, Wheat, Sorghum, and Barley prices.
2. The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index: Sunflower oil, Palm oil, Soy oil, and Rapeseed oil prices.
3. The FAO Sugar Price Index: Sugar prices.

FFPIA is a global food price index with a focus on vulnerable developing countries. FFPI is not an indicator that can be used on its own to assess the food security impact of food prices on food insecure households in vulnerable developing countries. First, the global export shares of the agricultural commodities may not necessarily reflect the structure of the agricultural imports of the developing countries or of household consumption. Second, the international commodity prices used for each agricultural commodity may not represent the unit cost of what the developing countries actually import. And, finally, the actual prices paid by the households may be quite different from the border prices, as their transmission to the local domestic markets could be influenced by many other factors, including changes in exchange rates or trade policies.

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Reference - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations