price

The United Nations today reported that food prices fell for the third month in a row in December last year, balancing out sharp increases registered earlier in 2012, which had previously sparked fears of a food crisis.

The United Nations today reported that global food prices decreased slightly in October, noting that international coordination has helped avert a sharp rise in prices despite difficult market conditions.

The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for urgent action to tackle the “silent tsunami” of rising food prices which threatens to push more than 100 million people worldwide into hunger.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is facing a potential food crisis owing to a low harvest resulting partly from last summer’s heavy floods.