Six wars, six different effects on the price of food somewhere else in the world, and two that barely moved it at all
The Global Food Price Impact Dataset & Dashboard, DT Linux
The Global Food Price Impact Dataset & Dashboard
An interactive companion to DT Linux's briefing on food prices and war, comparing six conflicts by how their effects actually traveled, or didn't, through global commodity markets: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the 2026 Iran war, Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, Syria's civil war, Sudan's civil war, and the Gaza war.
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This report's price-transmission tiers
How each case compares
What's in this dataset, by tier
This report's six conflicts, by transmission tier
A composition of this report's own six cases, not a further statistical claim: two moved a global price index directly, two caused serious regional disruption without moving it, and two produced this report's most severe outcomes, UN-confirmed famine, while leaving no mark on any index at all. Used here because it is a genuine part-to-whole split; the price and severity comparisons above stay bar charts because they compare independent figures, not shares of one total.
Dataset schema
| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| case_name | The conflict this row describes | "Sudan's civil war" |
| tier | This report's own price-transmission categorization, not a severity ranking | "Off the index" |
| key_metric | The headline sourced figure for this case | "45% acute food insecurity" |
| source | Citation for the key metric | "UNICEF / Integrated Food Security Phase Classification" |
| last_verified | Date the figure was last checked against its original source | "2026-09-02" |
About this dataset
How this data was collected
This dataset was put together by cross-referencing the Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index historical database and monthly releases, Bloomberg's Green Markets fertilizer index, the UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, and contemporaneous institutional and humanitarian reporting on each conflict. DT Linux's research process rechecks each figure against its original publication; this report does not involve DT Linux collecting or mining trade or food security data itself.
Data handling and compliance
Built entirely from publicly published institutional, governmental, and humanitarian sources, never from personal data on identifiable individuals collected by DT Linux. Full practices in our privacy policy.
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