Global food prices fall, crop prospects improve
date:Jul 05, 2013
upply prospects.

Its cereal prices sub-index fell about 1 percent while prices of edible oils reached a six-month low.

FAO's headline index hit a peak of 238 points in February 2011, when high food prices helped drive the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

In the summer of 2012 it began surging to levels close to those seen in 2008, when riots, some deadly, broke out in several poor countries.
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