The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) tracks changes in the cost of basic foods in nations at risk of food poverty, a price bulletin published on ReliefWeb states.
The Price Bulletin offers a set of charts for each country and region covered by FEWS NET, displaying monthly prices for the current marketing year in a few selected urban areas and allowing users to contrast current trends with both seasonal trend-indicating five-year average prices and prices from the prior year.
For the majority of Afghans, wheat makes up more than 70% of their diet. Rice of inferior grade is a poor, but occasionally necessary, replacement. All marketplaces are major consumer markets and population centers.
The capital, Kabul, serves as a hub for travel between the north, south, east, and west as well as supplying the central regions. The eastern region of the country receives supplies from Jalalabad. In a good year, Mazar-e-Sarif also provides the southern provinces in addition to the northern provinces.
Faizabad provides the Badakhshan Province, which has experienced persistent food insecurity, whereas Kunduz supplies the northeastern areas.
The northwest, which is prone to drought, is supplied by Maimana market. West is supplied by Hirat. Kandahar supplies the southwest region of the nation, where market activity is frequently hampered by conflict, civil unrest, and drought.
