United Nations, (Prensa Latina) The UN World Food Program warned on Monday that more than a million Afghans in rural areas of that Asian country are at risk of famine, due to a rise in food prices.
According to the UN agency, the rise in the price of wheat, vegetable cooking oil and produce has put food security of 1.3 million Afghans in a high-risk situation.
Afghanistan WFP Director Rick Corsino’s statements, published in the UN headquarters, said those people were previously considered to be on the border of food-insecurity.
The excessive rise in food prices, which in the case of wheat flour was 60 percent, puts those people in a more difficult situation, said the official.
To solve the problem, Corsino said the WFP will need 40,000 additional tons of food, at a cost of around $30 million to cover the needs of that population until the next harvest.
The WFP representative clarified that not only in Afghanistan, but the price of wheat in the world has increased 100 percent during the last 12 months.