Farmer's Weekly

Impact of market developments on food prices in 2022

During December and early January, a number of factors reaffirmed Absa AgriBusiness’s outlook for 2022. Here we consider some of the market dynamics that played out during the last month of 2021 and the first weeks of 2022, and discuss their impact on specific agricultural commodity prices, and food prices in general.

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