© Mosab Ahmed,IFPRI Highlights: - Average international prices of wheat, sorghum, rice, and sugar slightly increased in Q4 of 2022 compared to Q3. Import parity prices decreased during the same period because of the reduction in the freight cost to Port Sudan. - Annual inflation2 decreased from three-digit inflation (260.6 percent) in 2022Q1 to […]
BULLETIN ON FOOD PRICE DYNAMICS, INFLATION, AND THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION IN SUDAN: January 2023
© Mosab Ahmed,IFPRI Highlights: • International prices of food commodities continued to decrease in January 2023 especially for vegetable oils, sugar, dairy, and meat. Resulting in further sluggish overall price inflation in January 2023 of 83.6 compared to 87.3 percent in December 2022. • The national retail prices of food commodities in January 2023 […]
BULLETIN ON FOOD PRICE DYNAMICS, INFLATION, AND THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION IN SUDAN: November-December 2022
© Mosab Ahmed, IFPRI Highlights: • The decline in international prices, especially for food commodities, helped to limit overall price inflation in Sudan in November and December 2022. Consequently, the annual inflation rates in these months were lower than the inflation rate in October 2022. • Local prices of some food commodities noticeably decreased […]
الصراع القائم بين روسيا وأكرانيا وتفاقم مشاكل الأمن الغذائي في السودان
تسبب الغزو الروسي لأوكرانيا في تعطيل الإنتاج الزراعي والتجارة من إحدى أهم مناطق العالم لتصدير المواد الغذائية، وتهدد الحرب بارتفاعٍ أسعار المواد الغذائية المتزايدة بالفعل، وستؤدي كذلك إلى ندرتها، ولا سيما في المناطق الأكثر اعتمادًا على القمح والصادرات الأخرى من روسيا وأوكرانيا – وتحديدًا بلدان منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is likely to compound Sudan’s existing food security problems
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has disrupted agricultural production and trade from one of the world's major food exporting regions. The war threatens to drive rising food prices still higher and create scarcity, especially for regions most dependent on wheat and other exports from Russia and Ukraine—particularly the Middle East and North Africa.
