Food crisis ‘looming’ after global energy shock, UN agriculture fund says
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Rising energy and fertiliser costs are hitting smallholder farmers and driving up prices of agricultural commodities, fuelling fears of a global food crisis, the head of the UN agriculture development fund told AFP. Global agricultural prices jumped 13 per cent in the third quarter of the year, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),…
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