Eswatini Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities
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Description
Market price records for Eswatini covering essential commodities like maize, rice, and beans, sourced from the World Food Programme. This dataset provides weekly and monthly price updates for various local markets, with historical data potentially spanning back to 2003.
Use Cases
Analyzing price volatility of maize and rice to identify food security risks
Comparing market-level price disparities for beans and fish across Eswatini
Forecasting sugar price trends using historical monthly WFP data
Strengths
Sourced from the official World Food Programme Price Database
Covers specific essential food groups including grains, proteins, and sugar
Weekly update frequency ensures recent market visibility
Limitations
Unknown total record count
Potential temporal gaps as many countries only began reporting after 2003
Lack of explicit column definitions in metadata
Provenance
Source
World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database
Collection Method
Market monitoring and surveys
Time Range
2003-2026
Freshness
Updated weekly with a mix of weekly and monthly data points.
Geography
Eswatini
Data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC-BY-IGO) license.