Brief on the impact of food price inflation on nutrition feeding programs
Published by editor| Filed under CE-DAT
At the request of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to the CE‐DAT team, a rapid analysis of the food price increases on populations of concern was undertaken and is now available online here.
Summary
The rapid analysis conducted suggested that, on average, the cost of minimum food rations has risen by 91% (range 72‐106%) over the 2006 to 2008 year‐to‐date period. The price of individual components of the food rations, on average, were seen to have risen by 63% (range: a decrease of 13% for the world price of sugar to an increase of 177% for the price of Canadian wheat) over the 2006 to 2008 year‐to‐date period.