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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains in its report that the food price index rebounded slightly in april 2023 an average of 127.2 points, that is, 0.8 points or 0.6% more than in march and some 31.2 points (19.7%) below its value in the same month last year.

According to the most recent edition of the World Bank's Commodity Markets Outlook, the pace of decline in global commodity prices this year is expected to be the fastest since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined in march for the 12th consecutive month, driven by a decline in global quotations for cereals and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

The president of the Defensoría del Consumidor, Ricardo Salazar, headed the verification of prices and supply of basic grains in Inversiones Servygran, S.A. de C.V. located in Acajutla, Sonsonate, in order to ensure that distributors of these products have fair prices for consumers.

Ministers and Vice Ministers of Agriculture of Latin America and the Caribbean discussed the emergency policies that their countries are implementing to mitigate the impact of increases in the price of food and the inputs needed to produce it due to the war in Eastern Europe.