Eswatini Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities

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