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Africa: Prices keep food on the shelves

22 Jun 2009

ADDIS ABABA: An increasing number of Africans living in urban areas are finding it harder to put enough food on the table, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned.

Josette Sheeran the World Food Program, Executive Director asks a question to Alemayehu Dender one of the traders in Addis Ababa grain market, Ethiopia, 23 April 2007. © Tesfalem Waldeys/IRIN

"The food crisis and shortages are still there in some African countries," said Adam Elhiraika, ECA economic affairs officer. "We see [a] crisis when we do not have enough income to buy the food we need."

Elhiraika, coordinator of a team which prepared the ECA's Economic Report on Africa 2009, told IRIN in Addis Ababa: "We have less purchasing power. We also still have food shortages because many African countries do not have the capacity to respond to demand."

Read the full article on IRIN.