UN Guide to Soaring Food Prices

While high food prices can negatively impact the food security of vulnerable households, they can also create opportunities for developing agricultural production and rural development.

A Sudanese farmer harvests sorghum.

Maize being grown at Huambo's Agricultural Institute in Angola.

Tereza Makowa, a small scale farmer in Balaka district, says hunger is driving sex work and the HIV infection rate in the area.

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