Global Food Prices Decline From Record Highs in 2022, UN Says — Except for Two Staples

FILE - This aerial photo taken on Oct. 24, 2023, shows combines harvesting rice in Nantong, China's eastern Jiangsu province. Global food prices fell from record highs in 2022, but rice and sugar were two commodities that rose.

Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oil fell last year from record highs in 2022, when Russia’s war in Ukraine, drought and other factors helped worsen hunger worldwide, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.