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“High global food prices are a new fact of life, a major report warned on Thursday as 22 countries, mostly in Africa, were listed as being at severe risk from record food and fuel costs.”
“At the same time, there were calls for an end to restrictions on the export of food, with open trade said to be vital in any solution to the record prices which have sparked protests in many countries.”
“The cost of feeding the family will remain far higher than in the past decade, even though prices should ease in coming years, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a report on the global agriculture outlook for the next 10 years.”
“The jump in prices has added to the number of people in extreme hunger and some humanitarian aid is “urgently required,” said the OECD and FAP joint report.”
Josette Sheeran, head of the UN World Food Programme, said, “Many nations have imposed export controls. Today we buy 80 percent of our humanitarian food in the developing world.” She urged all nations to allow them to purchase food, even if they have controls.”
In Rome, the FAP listed 22 countries, most of them in Africa, which had high levels of “chronic hunger” and were “especially vulnerable to rising food and fuel prices.”