Food Price Index, percentage change from peak
RecordSTO-ZACY395SV6-Y9YGCAV225-VWW8D9
Global · August 2026
Food Price Index, percentage change from peak worldwide was -16.8% in August 2026 (FAO).
- Publisher
- FAO
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- FAO Food Price Index
- Locator
- FAO Food Price Index rises in August amid broad-based increases, led by sugar
- Retrieved
- 18 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Compared to last year, the FFPI stood 3.3 points (2.5 percent) higher but remained 26.9 points (16.8 percent) below its peak reached in March 2022.
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APA
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2026). FAO Food Price Index. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZACY395SV6Y9YGCAV225VWW8D9
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- MLA
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "FAO Food Price Index." 2026, https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZACY395SV6Y9YGCAV225VWW8D9.
- Chicago
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "FAO Food Price Index." 2026. https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZACY395SV6Y9YGCAV225VWW8D9.
- BibTeX
- @misc{fao2026foodvww8d9, author = {{Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations}}, title = {FAO Food Price Index}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZACY395SV6Y9YGCAV225VWW8D9}, note = {Original source: https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- FAO Food Price Index
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- FAO Food Price Index rises in August amid broad-based increases, led by sugar
- Retrieved
- 18 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_ZACY395SV6Y9YGCAV225VWW8D9