Delegates at a special United Nations meeting have been told that good harvest and adequate cereal stocks should mean that the recent rises in the cost of food should ease. The Food and Agriculture Organisation, which called the meeting in Rome said its food prices index had risen 25 per cent since last year and the world's poor were struggling to cope up with it.But the experts have now predicted that with good harvest in most countries, the situation is nowhere near as serious as in 2007 and 2008 when record high prices sparked food riots in a number of countries.
News On AIR | September 25, 2010 9:20 AM
Good harvest should result in lower food prices: FAO