date:Jan 16, 2013
o Sundaram, Assistant Director-General in charge of FAOs Economic and Social Development Department.
But international coordination, including through the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), as well as flagging demand in a stagnant international economy, helped ensure the price spike was short-lived and calmed markets so that 2012 prices ended up below the previous years levels.
The FAO Cereal Price Index averaged 250 points in December, down 2.3 per cent, or six points, from Novem