Predictions
- Global food prices likely to remain around historic highs over coming months, sustaining elevated protest risks across emerging markets
- Net crop exporters will enjoy degree of economic benefit, but overall, citizens will face broad rises in hardship
- South America and western Africa will remain most adversely affected, alongside countries currently experiencing major conflicts
Event
A UN World Food Programme (WFP) press release on 22 June highlighted executive director David Beasley’s earlier statement to the WFP’s executive board that roughly 41 million people across 43 countries were “teetering on the very verge of famine”
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