# FAO Food Price Index rises sharply

> The FAO Food Price Index rose 3.9% in November to 105.0 points, its highest since December 2014, with the vegetable oil sub-index up 14.5% on palm oil inventory contraction. The cereal index gained 2.5% on Argentine wheat, US and Ukrainian maize, and Chinese purchases.

- Date: 2020-03-12 · published 2020-03-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Global · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/54057-fao-food-price-index-rises-sharply
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Tighter palm oil stocks and reduced wheat and maize export supplies support higher feed-ingredient and vegetable oil prices, raising feed input costs for buyers.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲
- WHEAT: bullish ▲
- PALMOIL: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2022-04-03 | [FAO Food Price Index rises to record high in February](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41782-fao-food-price-index-rises-to-record-high-in-february.md) | +5.8% | +22.2% |
| PALMOIL | 2025-04-04 | [FAO Food Price Index remains stable in March](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25161-fao-food-price-index-remains-stable-in-march.md) | -5.6% | -9.1% |
| PALMOIL | 2022-03-02 | [Global food prices rise in January](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42354-global-food-prices-rise-in-january.md) | -2.6% | -3.6% |
| PALMOIL | 2025-07-07 | [FAO Food Price Index up slightly in June due to higher meat, dairy and vegetable oil prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23812-fao-food-price-index-up-slightly-in-june-due-to-higher-meat-dairy-and-vegetable.md) | +0.8% | +2.7% |
| PALMOIL | 2025-04-07 | [FAO Food Price Index up slightly in June due to higher meat, dairy and vegetable oil prices](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25227-fao-food-price-index-up-slightly-in-june-due-to-higher-meat-dairy-and-vegetable.md) | -2.5% | -6.2% |
| WHEAT | 2021-02-12 | [FAO Food Price Index rises in November](https://feedsoft.ai/events/9251-fao-food-price-index-rises-in-november.md) | +9.9% | +9.2% |
| WHEAT | 2026-09-04 | [FAO Food Price Index rises again \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17533-fao-food-price-index-rises-again-world-grain.md) | +1.4% | +0.4% |
| WHEAT | 2022-04-03 | [FAO Food Price Index rises to record high in February](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41782-fao-food-price-index-rises-to-record-high-in-february.md) | -7.3% | -4.2% |

## Sources

- fao.org: https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/FAO-Food-Price-Index-rises-sharply/en

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