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  "title": "Global Food Crisis May Persist, With Prices Still Elevated After Year of War",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, March 9, 2023",
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  "summary": "International organizations repeat joint call for rapid action on food and nutrition security",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Price trends and recent evolution",
      "content": "- One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended agricultural commodity markets, food prices remain elevated even after retreating from their record highs in early 2022.\n- Eleven straight monthly declines have pushed food prices down 19 percent from a peak last March.\n- Inflation-adjusted prices in February remained above than the average level for recent years, though they are now back in line with levels seen before the war in Ukraine.\n- The Chart of the Week shows these price movements and the FAO Food Price Index composition."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Drivers within the FAO Food Price Index",
      "content": "- Vegetable oils drove the decline in prices, along with dairy and cereals.\n- Sugar and meat are little changed from early last year."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Populations and countries at risk",
      "content": "- With two of the world’s largest exporters of wheat and other crucial crops entering a second year of war, many vulnerable countries still face heightened food insecurity.\n- Fragile and conflict-affected states, home to 1 billion people, are at particularrisk."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Policy recommendations from international organizations",
      "content": "- The IMF and other global institutions said in a recent joint statement on food security that governments and donors must:\n  - step up support for the most vulnerable,\n  - facilitate trade and market functioning, and\n  - abandon harmful subsidies.\n- “More concerted action across these three key areas is needed to prevent a prolonged crisis,” the heads of the FAO, IMF, World Bank, World Food Programme and World Trade Organization said in a Feb. 8statement, their third since July on the global food and nutrition security crisis."
    },
    {
      "heading": "IMF response and financial support",
      "content": "- The IMF's new Food Shock Window has so far supported Guinea, Haiti, Malawi, South Sudan and Ukraine.\n- In addition, nine countries facing acute food insecurity benefited from IMF financial support through new or existing programs, with a focus on strengthening social safety nets and policies to help address the impact of the food crisis.\n\nGlobal Food Crisis May Persist, With Prices Still Elevated After Year of War — IMF blog, March 9, 2023\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- risk\n- statement\n- Food Shock Window\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2023/03/09/global-food-crisis-may-persist-with-prices-still-elevated-after-year-of-war"
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    "Authors: Jeff Kearns",
    "Published: March 9, 2023",
    "One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended agricultural commodity markets, food prices remain elevated even after retreating from their record highs in early 2022.",
    "Eleven straight monthly declines have pushed food prices down 19 percent from a peak last March.",
    "Inflation-adjusted prices in February remained above than the average level for recent years, though they are now back in line with levels seen before the war in Ukraine.",
    "The Chart of the Week shows these price movements and the FAO Food Price Index composition.",
    "Vegetable oils drove the decline in prices, along with dairy and cereals.",
    "Sugar and meat are little changed from early last year.",
    "With two of the world’s largest exporters of wheat and other crucial crops entering a second year of war, many vulnerable countries still face heightened food insecurity.",
    "Fragile and conflict-affected states, home to 1 billion people, are at particularrisk.",
    "The IMF and other global institutions said in a recent joint statement on food security that governments and donors must:",
    "“More concerted action across these three key areas is needed to prevent a prolonged crisis,” the heads of the FAO, IMF, World Bank, World Food Programme and World Trade Organization said in a Feb. 8statement, their third since July on the global food and nutrition security crisis.",
    "The IMF's new Food Shock Window has so far supported Guinea, Haiti, Malawi, South Sudan and Ukraine.",
    "In addition, nine countries facing acute food insecurity benefited from IMF financial support through new or existing programs, with a focus on strengthening social safety nets and policies to help address the impact of the food crisis.",
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