Surging food import costs threaten world’s poorest, FAO warns – Reuters

  • Date: 10-Jun-2021
  • Source: Reuters
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Gulf
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Surging food import costs threaten world’s poorest, FAO warns – Reuters

Food imports costs across the world are expected to surge to record levels this year, piling pressure on many of the poorest countries whose economies have already been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. Food Agency said on Thursday.

These high costs may persist for a sustained period as nearly all agricultural commodities have become more expensive, while a rally in energy markets could raise farmers' production costs, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.

"The problem is not the world facing higher prices," Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the FAO's trade and markets division, told Reuters.