{"id":95824,"date":"2026-04-03T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=95824"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:22:16","slug":"world-food-prices-extend-rise-in-march-united-nations-fao-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/world-food-prices-extend-rise-in-march-united-nations-fao-says\/","title":{"rendered":"World food prices extend rise in March, United Nations\u2019 FAO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: World food prices climbed in March \u200bto the highest level since December, marking a second consecutive monthly increase, the \u200cUnited Nations \u200cFood \u200band Agriculture \u200cOrganization \u2060said \u200bon Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060FAO Food Price Index, which measures changes in a basket of \u2060globally traded \u200cfood \u200ccommodities, averaged \u200b128.5 \u200cpoints in March, \u200cup 2.4 percent from its revised February level.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200cseparate report, the FAO slightly raised \u2060its \u20602025 global cereal production forecast to a record 3.036 billion metric tons. It would be 5.8 percent higher year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: World food prices climbed in March \u200bto the highest level since December, marking a second consecutive monthly increase, the \u200cUnited Nations \u200cFood \u200band Agriculture \u200cOrganization \u2060said \u200bon Friday. The \u2060FAO Food Price Index, which measures changes in a basket of \u2060globally traded \u200cfood \u200ccommodities, averaged \u200b128.5 \u200cpoints in March, \u200cup 2.4 percent from its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95838,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95824\/revisions\/95838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}