IRIN examines food security issues

Published on July 14, 2012 at 10:47 AM

“With the help of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and food security experts, IRIN takes a closer look” at how droughts worldwide are affecting grain and cereal supplies, the resulting price fluctuations, and how these issues affect food aid operations. Though experts state a crisis is not imminent, “there is concern that staple grains like maize and wheat could become less inexpensive for the poor, and sharp fluctuations in prices or volatility could disrupt the efforts of grain-importing poor countries to stay within their budgets,” IRIN writes. In addition, “[t]he price of maize and wheat will affect agencies like WFP, stated [Maximo Torero, director of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)],” IRIN notes, adding that Torero said, “But at this point I will not be alarmist, even though cautious. Remember, aid agencies not only provide raw staples, they provide combinations of nutritious products also” (7/12).

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