Algeria Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities
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Description
This dataset tracks market prices for essential food commodities across Algeria, sourced from the World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database. It provides historical price trends for staples such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar, with updates occurring weekly. While the global database contains records from 1992, this specific subset focuses on Algerian market indicators.
Use Cases
Analyzing inflation trends for staple goods like rice and sugar in Algerian markets
Developing food security indicators based on the price volatility of maize and beans
Forecasting future food costs using historical time-series price data
Strengths
Sourced from the World Food Programme's official price database
Covers multiple food categories including grains, proteins, and sweeteners
CC-BY-IGO license facilitates open research and attribution
Limitations
Specific column headers and row counts are not provided in the source metadata
Temporal start date for Algeria specifically may be more recent than the 1992 global database start
Data is primarily monthly, which may mask intra-month price volatility
Provenance
Source
World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database
Time Range
1992 - 2026
Freshness
Updated weekly, though the underlying data points are largely monthly averages.
Geography
Algeria
The data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC-BY-IGO) license, requiring proper credit to the WFP.