The people from developing countries became more prone to food crisis due to increase prices of food commodity world wide.The price of food became 33 percent high in this July than at the same time of last year.
According to the food commodity price monitoring report recently published by world bank indicate that unstable price of food commodity increased the risk of food crisis for poor people in the developing nations.
The Report shows that there is increase of price in maize by 84 percent,sugar by 62 percent,barley by 55 percent and soya bean by 47 percent and all together there is increase of aggregate price by 33 percent. The price of crude oil is increased by 45 percent in compared to July 2010 which caused 67 increase in production cost .
The report shows that the world wide food storage is decreasing and the instability in the price of sugar,rice and petroleum may cause undetectable effect on coming months.The report said “The unstable world economy and political instability in middle east and African nations may cause fluctuation in price of petroleum may continue .
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