Africa: Prices keep food on the shelves

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."

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