Fiji Food Prices: WFP Market Monitoring for Essential Commodities

Market-level price data for Fiji curated by the World Food Programme tracks essential commodities including rice, fish, and sugar. The collection provides longitudinal economic indicators for food security, with updates typically occurring on a monthly or weekly basis.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of rice and fish prices to monitor local food inflation
• Market-level price comparison for essential staples across different Fiji regions
• Econometric modeling of food security indicators based on commodity price volatility

Strengths

• Official data from the World Food Programme Price Database covering 3,000 global markets
• Includes specific commodity categories such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar
• Standardized CC-BY-IGO licensing for intergovernmental data sharing

Limitations

• Temporal coverage for Fiji specifically may not extend to the 1992 database start date
• Reporting frequency is inconsistent, fluctuating between weekly and monthly intervals

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) Price Database

Collection Method

Market monitoring and surveys

Freshness

Updated weekly with a last recorded update of March 2026.

Geography

Fiji