FAO notes decrease in food prices

The FAO also said prices of local food products had decreased in Burundi. Supplies in local markets increased, in addition to an improvement in national production. The FAO cited the high level of poverty and the search for “immediate money to satisfy other needs” such as other food items and medical care as one of the causes of the drop in prices. “The consequent risk is the early exhaustion of stocks by immediately selling production,” the FAO noted. It singled out significant decreases in coffee production, low local demand, disrupted commercial flow in insecure zones and massive disposal of products on the market fearing thefts in insecure zones as other causes of the drop in food prices.