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Supplies of most of the world’s major food commodities are expected to be adequate in 2024/25, although extreme weather, rising geopolitical tensions, sudden policy changes and other factors could all potentially tip the delicate global demand-supply balances

AMMAN — Food prices in Jordan increased by 1.8 per cent by the end of February, according to a monthly report by the World Bank, while the Department of Statistics indicated a rise in the inflation rate in Jordan by 1.57 per cent during the same month compared to February 2023.

LONDON: The UN food agency’s world price index ended last year about 10 percent below its 2022, with values in December also down from the previous month, helping further ease concerns over global food price inflation, according to Reuters.