As many as 47 million additional people will fall into acute hunger in 81 countries worldwide this year because of higher grain and fuel prices resulting from the Ukraine war, a report says
Carine Aimée Kamdem, who sells chickens in a market in Cameroon’s port city of Douala, had to make a hard choice this month. A sharp rise in prices has left her unable to afford bread for her four children, so she was forced to search for cheaper options.
The war is sparking a rise in food prices in many countries. As many as 47 million additional people will fall into acute hunger in 81 countries worldwide this year because of higher grain and fuel prices resulting from the Ukraine war, with African countries likely to be the hardest hit, according to a report released on Thursday by the United Nations World Food Programme.
In a separate report last week, the UN food agency noted a disturbing wave of price increases in many of the world’s most vulnerable countries: cooking oil was up by 36 per cent in Yemen and 39 per cent in Syria, and wheat flour had jumped by 47 per cent in Lebanon and 15 per cent in Libya. “The crisis in Ukraine is making the situation dangerously worse,” Oxfam said in a statement this week. “Food prices could rise by another 20 per cent worldwide, an unbearable increase for already fragile populations.”
In Cameroon, the surge in global wheat prices has triggered a rise in bread prices of about 20 per cent since the Ukraine war began. Some bakeries are switching to cheaper flour made from cassava or sweet potatoes. But bread is a staple food in Cameroon, and the higher prices are inflicting pain on everyone from ordinary consumers to street vendors and bakery workers.
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