Some 7.3 million more Bangladeshis undernourished due to high food price
22/9/2008 16:13
Bangladesh's undernourished population has increased by 7.3 million,
largely because of the impact of higher food prices and the damage of paddy by
disasters last year, The Daily Star reported today.
A report of FAO and WFP
was quoted by the leading English newspaper as saying that the number of the
country's undernourished population has increased from 39.6 million to 46.9
million.
The report said, as a result of rising food prices and general
inflation, more than half of the country's 145 million population is now food
insecure and nearly one-third is understood as severely food insecure.
The
special report was prepared by FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission
to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh was severely affected by two floods and a
devastating cyclone in the second half of 2007, causing a rice production
shortfall of 1.2 million tons.
Xinhua
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