Food Crisis 'Looming' After Global Energy Shock, UN Agriculture Fund Says
IFAD said the shock is pushing up fertiliser and fuel costs, with global agricultural prices rising 13% in the third quarter.
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Rising energy and fertilizer prices are hitting small farmers hard and pushing up agricultural prices, raising fears of a potential global food crisis, the head of the United Nations Fund for Agricultural Development told AFP.
Food insecurity affects some 260 million people in the world. The boss of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, or IFAD, sounds the alarm about the ongoing spiral which, of the price
Increasing energy and fertilizer costs affects small farmers and results in higher prices for agricultural products, fuelling fears about a global food crisis, the director of the UN Development Fund told AFP...
Food crisis ‘looming’ after global energy shock, UN agriculture fund says
The UN agriculture fund warns of a potential global food crisis due to increases in energy and fertilizer prices affecting smallholder farmers. Agricultural commodity prices saw a significant rise in the third quarter of the year.
Food crisis 'looming' after global energy shock, UN agriculture fund says
Rising energy and fertiliser costs are hitting smallholder farmers and driving up prices of agricultural commodities, fueling fears of a global food crisis, the head of the UN agriculture development fund told AFP.
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