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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 each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Maize, rice, and cassava are the most important food commodities.Markets selected represent the entire geographic length of thecountry: two markets in each of the north, center, and south. In thenorth, Karonga is one of the most active markets in maize and rice andis influenced by informal cross-border trade with Tanzania. Mzuzu is amajor maize producing area in the northern region. Salima, in thecenter along the lake, is an important market where some of thefishing populations are almost entirely dependent on the market forstaple cereals. Mitundu is a very busy peri-urban market in Lilongwe. Inthe south, the Lunzu market is the main supplier of food commoditiessuch as maize and rice for Blantyre. The Bangula market in Nsanjedistrict was chosen to represent the Lower Shire area, coveringChikwawa and Nsanje districts.