food prices

Analysts warn French maize crop could halve, deepest EU loss in decades

A summer of relentless heat and drought across Europe is inflicting severe damage on agricultural production, with France's corn crop set to fall 35% to its lowest level since at least 1980, Britain bracing for its worst grain harvest on…

Europe’s drought shrivels crops, could erase EU growth

A relentless summer of heat waves and drought is battering European agriculture from the Netherlands to the Balkans, threatening both summer and winter crop yields and raising alarms about food price inflation across the continent.

‘Heatflation’ drives food prices sharply higher across South Korea and Europe

Prolonged extreme heat is sending food prices sharply higher across South Korea and Europe, reviving a phenomenon economists call "heatflation" — the fusion of heat and inflation — as record temperatures stunt crop growth, dry up rivers, and kill farmed…

Global food prices hit three-year high amid war and weather fears

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported Friday that global food prices rose in July to their highest level in more than three years, as conflicts in the Gulf and Black Sea regions and adverse weather tightened supply across…

Strong El Niño could lift global food prices 20%, analysts warn

A strengthening El Niño is threatening to disrupt harvests and reignite inflation across emerging economies, with analysts warning that food-price pressures could peak in the first half of 2027 and hit countries in Asia and Africa hardest.

El Niño threatens global food supplies as crop output falls

The developing El Niño weather pattern is poised to disrupt global food production in 2026-27, with output of key crops expected to fall across major producing regions and analysts warning the phenomenon could feed a new wave of commodity-driven inflation.

FAO food prices fall for second straight month in June

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Friday that global food commodity prices declined for a second consecutive month in June, as lower cereal, sugar, and dairy prices outweighed increases in vegetable oils and meat.

Cocoa, coffee prices surge as El Nino disrupts harvests

A developing El Niño weather pattern with a roughly two-in-three chance of reaching "strong" or "very strong" intensity is sending shockwaves through global agricultural commodity markets, disrupting coffee harvests in Brazil, threatening cocoa output in West Africa, and deepening India's…

FAO and WFP seek $202M as super El Niño threatens global food prices

A strengthening El Niño in the tropical Pacific is raising alarm across global commodity and financial markets, with forecasters warning the weather phenomenon could reach "super" intensity by late 2026 and inflict lasting damage on food production in some of…

Record grain stocks may buffer El Nino food supply shock

Global forecasters and investment analysts are raising alarms that a strengthening El Niño weather pattern poses mounting risks to agricultural commodity markets, with some warning that current prices fail to account for the potential severity of disruptions ahead.