World food prices surge to new historic peak

Rome – World food prices surged to a new ‘historic’ peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index, the agency said Thursday.

The index – a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices – averaged 231 points in January and was up 3.4 per cent from December 2010.

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