Speaking in Berlin on Wedensday, Josette Sheeran, head of the UN World food programme, said that rising food prices, a shortfall of stock and the effects of climate change pose a serious triple threat to the world’s poor.
She explained that the price the agency had to pay for its food procurement had shot up in the last 5 years, especially in the last 8 months. She said, “It affects us and our ability to reach people at the same time that the world’s most vulnerable, those making a- dollar- a-day or less, are being priced out of the food market.”
A very important part of her speech was when she said, “We need new strategies to deal with problems that… as of a year ago were not really predicted to be long-term trends, such as the rise in food prices. We now know that experts predict this to be a long-term trend.”