This data set includes Global Food Price Estimates and Inflation by Product, Market, and Country. It helps gain insight into price developments beyond what can be formally measured by traditional methods.It includes 3 CSV files:- Monthly Food Price Inflation Estimates By Country, monthly food price inflation estimates aggregated for all food products (in previous version) and Monthly food price estimates by product and market, information on model. Apples, bananas, beans, bread, bulgur, cabbage, carrots, cassava, cassava flour, cassava meal, cheese, chickpeas, cocoyam, coffee instant, cowpeas, cucumbers, dates, eggplants, eggs, fish, fish catfish, fish mackerel, fish salted, fish sardine canned, fish smoked, fish tilapia, fish tuna canned, gari, garlic, groundnuts, lentils, lettuce, livestock sheep, livestock goat castrated male, livestock sheep castrated male, maize, maize flour, maize meal, meat beef, meat beef canned, meat beef minced, meat buffalo, meat chicken, meat chicken plucked, meat chicken whole frozen, meat goat, meat pork, milk, millet, oil, onions, oranges, parsley, pasta, peas, plantains, potatoes, pulses, rice, salt, sesame, sorghum, sorghum food aid, sugar, tea, tomatoes, tomatoes paste, wheat, wheat flour, yogurtList of countries included:Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Republic of, , Gambia, The, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab RepublicMotivationFood price inflation is an important metric to inform economic policy but traditional sources of consumer prices are often produced with delay during crises and only at an aggregate level. This may poorly reflect the actual price trends in rural or poverty-stricken areas, where large populations reside in fragile situations.