Global food prices declined for the fourth month in a row, reported the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Dairy prices were down by 4.,4 per cent and meat prices by 1.3 per cent.
But on an annual basis, meat prices averaged 5.1 per cent higher than the previous year.
Vegetable oil prices declined by two-tenths of one per cent, but cereals prices increase by 1.7 per cent.
Ethanol production pushed corn prices up.
