{"id":23507,"date":"2026-02-09T10:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/global-food-prices-fall-for-fifth-month\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:17","slug":"global-food-prices-fall-for-fifth-month","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/global-food-prices-fall-for-fifth-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Global food prices fall for fifth month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global food prices have fallen for the fifth month in a row, driven by record harvests and rising stockpiles.<\/p>\n<p>Food and Agricultural Organisation&#8217;s Price Index team Monika T\u00f3thov\u00e1 says: &#8220;We are talking about food commodities\u00a0that are being imported when a country is not growing enough of those foods. All these commodity\u00a0levels, we are talking about are declining in prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This easing is helping to stabilise international markets, but many African countries continue to struggle with high food costs, partly due to import dependencies and local supply challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Rising rice and vegetable oil prices also highlight that not all staples are becoming cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21188,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23507","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Global food prices have fallen for the fifth month","form_embed":"<iframe src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/africa-rise-shine\/fao-reports-continued-decline-in-global-food-prices\/embed?style=cover\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"FAO Reports Continued Decline in Global Food Prices\"><\/iframe>","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23507\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}