date:Apr 12, 2013
to a short-term supply disruption caused by delays at ports in Brazil, the world's largest sugar producer and exporter.
The FAO's index is below a record peak of 237.9 points hit in February 2011, when high food prices helped drive the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
Over the summer last year, global food prices spiked for the third time in four years, with the index reaching 215.7 points in September 2012, close to levels since during the 2008 food crisis which spa