{"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\/ru\/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)&#8212;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, &#171;High food prices are hunger\u2019s new best friend.&#187; 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 &#171;high food price hot spots&#187; 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)&#8212;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, &#171;High food prices are hunger\u2019s new best friend.&#187; 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":[667,520,66,505,508,702],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-76509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-updates-development","category-allgemein-fa","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-healthcare-updates-development","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76510,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76509\/revisions\/76510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}