AFP
ROME: Twenty-two mainly African countries are “especially vulnerable” to soaring food and fuel prices, according to a report by the UN food agency ahead of a summit on food security next week in Rome.
“Large increases in food and fuel prices threaten macroeconomic stability and overall growth, especially of low-income, net-importing countries,” the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) notes in the report published on Wednesday.
It lists 22 countries “that are especially vulnerable due to a combination of high levels of chronic hunger ... while being highly dependent on imports of petroleum products ... and, in many cases, on imports of major grains (rice, wheat and maize) for domestic consumption.” Eritrea, Niger, the Comoros, Botswana, Haiti and Liberia face all three risk factors, the report notes.
The other countries, in order of severity, are Burundi, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Cambodia, North Korea, Rwanda and Kenya.
The summit at FAO’s Rome headquarters will bring together heads of state and government or high-level representatives, as well as those of several UN agencies and the Bretton Woods institutions, next Tuesday through Thursday.
“Large increases in food and fuel prices threaten macroeconomic stability and overall growth, especially of low-income, net-importing countries,” the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) notes in the report published on Wednesday.
It lists 22 countries “that are especially vulnerable due to a combination of high levels of chronic hunger ... while being highly dependent on imports of petroleum products ... and, in many cases, on imports of major grains (rice, wheat and maize) for domestic consumption.” Eritrea, Niger, the Comoros, Botswana, Haiti and Liberia face all three risk factors, the report notes.
The other countries, in order of severity, are Burundi, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Mozambique, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Cambodia, North Korea, Rwanda and Kenya.
The summit at FAO’s Rome headquarters will bring together heads of state and government or high-level representatives, as well as those of several UN agencies and the Bretton Woods institutions, next Tuesday through Thursday.
I have no doubt that we are doing 100 times better than Zimbabwe.
ReplyDeletewe are friend to North Korea, and we are in a good order next to her in the order.
ReplyDeleteLet's imagine we can increase our rice yield from perhaps 2.5 tonnes per heactare to the Asian average of perhaps 4.2 tonnes. Could we face food shortage and high food prices then? Let's keep an eye on our boarders and our neighbouring countries. They can buy rice from our farmers cheap at the harvest season. They have done so already. This leakage could cause food shortage and hish food prices in our country.
ReplyDeleteLAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Hun Sen a récemment parlé que notre Royaume peut exporter des milliers de tonnes de riz par an, et peut aussi devenir le premier exportateur du riz de l'ASEAN. Alors pourquoi, notre cher pays est classé dans la catégorie de manque de nourriture ou du riz par le FAO. Il faut que le gouvernement de Hun Sen s'explique devant le peuple khmer et la communauté internationale afin de réduire le manque de nourriture dans notre cher pays qui est soi-disant le futur premier exportateur du riz de l'ASEAN.
ReplyDeleteOù est donc la sur-production du riz de notre royaume ? Elle est dans la poche des membres du gouvernement Hun Sen ? Bien sûr que OUI !
I have always enjoyed ballots, bullets, bombs, bears and babes (and forget those bastards you despise), as the general election looms.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy while you (still) can!
Nearly 30 years under ah kwack rule ,Cambodia become an International bagger ,survive from foreign donors and charity ,SHAME !!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePower to the powerless people of Cambodia .
May lightning strikes ah kwack forehead at noon time.
Go to HELL ah kwack and his gang scum bag .
no doubt , because a quack black lips too stupit to lead our country.
ReplyDeletethat why our people are so poor,we need a real educate leader like uncle SAM RAINSY not AH KHMENG_WAT like AH QUACK..
ANTI KHMER/youn
Yes, no need to worry about food price because the government's gonna export rice soon. Our country is heading in the right direction towards abolishing the poor by chasing them from their huts where their lives depend on, and land will be sold to the crooks, that's called
ReplyDeletedevelopment when the poor are suffering and starve.
Indeed, Cambodia is moving in the right direction, and we'll continued to guard our land from Ah Khmer-Yuon Hyena and Ah Spam Rainxy Vulture.
ReplyDeleteVote CPP for Khmer Security.
Nope, this Viet parasite @ 1:11AM simply pretends to be Khmer speaking as if he were Khmer trashing all over KI-Media.
ReplyDeleteVietcong Go home!
Quit interfering, and leave the Cambodian people to solve the problem on their own.
The Viet parasite must learn the universal language:
"The world sees and knows the true coler of the Viet already"
Vietcong go home!
Don't listen to Ah Khmer-Yuon (1:57). Every one he's a liar. His only objective is to destroy Cambodia as he has been trying in the past.
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