Global food prices up 28.1 pct in 2021: FAO

GENEVA, Jan. 8: Although global food prices decreased slightly in December 2021 month-on-month, they were much higher throughout last year than in 2020, the United Nations (UN) said on Friday.

Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told a press briefing here that in 2021, the FAO Food Price Index was 28.1 percent higher than in 2020.