1. FAO/GIEWS Price Tool
(
(73 Countries, 905 commodity time series)
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http://www.fao.org/giews/pricetool/

2. FAO/GIEWS Price Tool
What’s in the database?
• Staple food commodities
(cereals, pulses,
(cereals pulses meat products)
• Monthly retail, wholesale or
export prices
•Selection of markets per
country

3. FAO/GIEWS Price Tool
What’s in the database? Supplementary info
Staple food commodities • Per caput consumption, % of DES,
(cereals, pulses,
(cereals pulses meat products) SSR of commodity, varieties
• Monthly retail, wholesale or • Source of data
export prices
•Selection of markets per • Geographic location (on map),
country description of market (eg “Main
market for wheat in north of
country”)

4. FAO/GIEWS Price Tool
What’s in the database? Supplementary info
• Staple food commodities • Per caput consumption, % of DES,
(cereals, pulses,
(cereals pulses meat products) SSR of commodity
• Monthly retail, wholesale or • Source of data
export prices
•Selection of markets per • Geographic location (on map),
country description of market (eg “Main
market for wheat in north of
country”)
What else?
• Nominal or real
• Local measures or conversion to Kg or tonnes
• Local currency or conversion to USD

5. Eastern Africa

6. Southern Africa

7. Western Africa

8. Work in progress
• Expansion of country/market coverage and length
of series

9. Work in progress
• Expansion of country/market coverage and length
of series
• Improvement of web tool design and functions

10. Work in progress
• Expansion of country/market coverage
• Improvement of web tool design and functions
• Li k t other GIEWS trade and food security
Links to th t d df d it
information (production forecast, imports monitoring, cereal
import bills, import parity prices)
• Development of Web analysis tool

11. Analysis

12. Work in progress
• Expansion of country/market coverage
• Improvement of web tool design and functions
• Li k t other GIEWS trade and food security
Links to th t d df d it
information (production forecast, imports monitoring, cereal
import bills, import parity prices)
• Development of analysis tool
• Development of GIEWS periodic price-specific
report

13. Work in progress
• Expansion of country/market coverage and length of series
• Improvement of web tool design and functions
•Links to other GIEWS trade and food security information
Links
• Development of analysis tool
• Development of GIEWS periodic price-specific report
• Preparation of analytical studies by country/region

14. Sources of information and limitations
• Irregular and in some cases unsustainable
• Information is not update timely. For 31 countries in Africa :
35% updated to March 2010
26 % updated to February 2010
10 % to January 2010
29% older
• Inconsistency of information among sources of information
• Lack of standardization in terms of retail and wholesale
prices for all commodities and markets
• Weak dissemination of products