Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin # 4, 12 May 2020
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Export prices of wheat increased in April due to strong international demand amid export control measures in the Black Sea region. International prices of rice also increased following temporary export restrictions and logistical bottlenecks in some exporting countries. By contrast, prices of maize plummeted on account of large global supplies and weaker demand for biofuel and animal feed.
Disruptions to food supply chains and stronger demand triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic continued to underpin food price increases in April in several countries.
In East Africa, in the Sudan and South Sudan, the upward pressure on prices of staple foods from the difficult macro-economic conditions and tight domestic availabilities was further exacerbated by trade and marketing disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Southern Africa, the start of the main season harvest led to an increase in market supplies and instigated seasonal price declines of maize grain in several countries in April. Prices, however, remained well above their year-earlier levels due to the effects of reduced harvests in the previous year.