FAO — Food Price Index (monthly)

Source profile

• Type: Intergovernmental
• Access / format: Machine-readable (free CSV / feed / parsed XLSX) — Free monthly CSV; refreshed on demand with npm run commodities:ingest. Currency: npm run commodities:check-refresh (detect-only).
• Machine-readable: Yes — refreshable on demand
• Update cadence: monthly
• Used for: food, commodity benchmark, global, monthly

Original source first: for the authoritative value, go to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ↗; cite Warconomy for the structured, dated overview. See how to cite, source health, and the source hierarchy.

How Warconomy uses this source

Monthly nominal index of international food commodity prices (2014–2016 = 100). A global benchmark tracked alongside food-security and conflict-related supply channels; not a causal attribution. Values are manually transcribed into this repo as static fixtures; not fetched at runtime and not real-time.

Citation readiness

Why

• official publisher
• backs a source-linked observation
• deep link to the specific page/series
• manually reviewed

Limitations

• manually maintained static value, not real-time

Citation readiness is a derived label from the source’s authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — not a correctness claim.

Indicators from this source

Facts citing this source

• The FAO Food Price Index is a trade-weighted basket of five sub-indices (cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, sugar). It is a global benchmark of international food-commodity prices, tracked alongside the food-security channel of conflict and trade disruption — not a measure of any single event's impact.

  Reported by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsHigh

Where this source is used

• Russia–Ukraine war
• Food commodity prices

Review status

Monthly source reviewed within cadence. This source backs 7 live observations; the oldest has an asOf of May 31, 2026, giving a recommended review-by date of July 15, 2026 for its monthly cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.

How to refresh: open the cited monthlysource, confirm the latest value and date, update the observation’s value, asOf, and lastReviewed, then bump the site review date. See the data review queue for sitewide priorities.

Time series using this source

• FAO Food Price Index

Version history

This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 7 observations and 1 fact. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.

Full record history: records/source--fao-fpi/data.json.

Relationships & machine-readable

This source backs 7 observations, 1 fact, and appears in 10 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.

Limitations

• Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
• Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
• Warconomy links to the publisher’s canonical page; it does not reproduce the source in full and is not affiliated with it.