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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For eachFEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urbancenters and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Maize is the least preferred cereal in urban areas, but it is themost widely consumed by the rural poor households. Sorghumis generally one of the cheapest cereals. Teff is central toEthiopian culture as the most preferred cereal that mostEthiopian households particularly in urban and some better offfamilies in rural areas consume. Teff is sourced predominantlyfrom domestic production. The most important markets for teffare the large cities including Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Mekele,and Dire Dawa. Addis Abada is the capital city, and Chereti,Gode, Abala, Asayta, Awash, Dessie, Mekele and Debere Berehanare major towns in the eastern, mainly food insecure, parts of thecountry. Bahir Dar is a major town in a surplus producing area.Gondar is a major town in North Western Ethiopia and Metemais a border town between Sudan and Ethiopia in northwesternEthiopia. Hossana is in south central part of SNNPR and Jimma isin the surplus producing parts of Southwestern Oromia.