{"id":76509,"date":"2021-07-10T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=76509"},"modified":"2021-07-10T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:49:33","slug":"un-warns-of-high-food-price-hot-spots-in-africa-hyperinflation-in-many-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/07\/10\/un-warns-of-high-food-price-hot-spots-in-africa-hyperinflation-in-many-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns of &#8216;High Food Price Hot Spots&#8217; in Africa; Hyperinflation In Many Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UN Warns of &#8216;High Food Price Hot Spots&#8217; in Africa; Hyperinflation In Many Countries<\/strong>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 9 (EIRNS)&#8211;The UN News office issued a release July 8 on the crisis of rising food prices, quoting Arif Husain, Chief Economist at the UN World Food Program, that, \u00abHigh food prices are hunger\u2019s new best friend.\u00bb Overall, the WFP paid 13 percent more for wheat for food relief, during the first four months of 2021, than it paid in 2020. Individual countries\u2014especially the poor and food-import dependent, are experiencing terrible price shocks. The release gave many examples, from the recent WFP Market Monitor:<br><br>Lebanon: The price of wheat flour here from March through May was 50% higher than the previous three months. The year-on-year price rise was 219%.<br><br>Syria: The price of cooking oil March through May rose nearly 60% from the prior three months. Cooking oil year-on-year has increased in price by 440%.<br><br>Mozambique: The price of cassava March through May shot up by 45% over the prior three-month period. Mozambique is among what the WFP calls the \u00abhigh food price hot spots\u00bb in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Warns of &#8216;High Food Price Hot Spots&#8217; in Africa; Hyperinflation In Many Countries&#8212; July 9 (EIRNS)&#8211;The UN News office issued a release July 8 on the crisis of rising food prices, quoting Arif Husain, Chief Economist at the UN World Food Program, that, \u00abHigh food prices are hunger\u2019s new best friend.\u00bb Overall, the WFP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":76521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[667,520,65,538,508,702],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-updates-development","category-allgemein-ru","category-updates-ru","category-updates-geopolitics","category-healthcare-updates-development","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76510,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions\/76510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}