FAO's Food Price Index tracks five commodity groups. Experts say food distribution is a worry even if supplies are plentiful.
A key index of monthly prices for food commodities shows a 13.7% year-on-year drop from the spike that began with Russia's war in Ukraine.
The index for 2023 was 13.7 percent lower than the average value from the preceding year, but sugar and rice prices rose during that time, the Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Friday.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The wars in Europe and the Middle East, climate change and soaring national debts hung over the annual talks.
A new U.N. report shows how prioritizing debt over services like health care and education plagues the developing world.
Just 22.3% of all the e-waste - any product that has a plug or battery - was properly collected and recycled in 2022.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
