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About AMIS indicators

AMIS promotes a better understanding of developments in global food markets. A central task in this regard is to monitor market and policy drivers that impact on global food prices and their volatility.

What does the Meat Price Index measure?

The Meat Price Index is computed from average prices of four types of meat, weighted by world average export trade shares for 2014-2016. Quotations include two poultry products, three bovine meat products, three pig meat products, and one bovine meat product.

Prices and price volatility

Providing information on international commodity prices is key to AMIS’s mission of monitoring global food markets. International commodity prices might indicate changes in supply and demand in major producing and consuming countries, or signal policy actions, such as a tightening of trade measures or changes in governmental purchase and stocking regimes, which have proved to be important drivers of food prices and food price volatility at global level.

To view other FAO Food Price Indices, select from the list on the right ("See also").