date:Jul 08, 2013
tonnes in 2012/13, some 40 percent less than the average annual harvest of more than 4 million tonnes before the conflict.
WFP said last month that Syrian families were increasingly resorting to begging for food to cope with shortages and high prices.
The average monthly price of wheat flour has more than doubled between May 2011 and May 2013 in several areas, and there are serious bread shortages across the country.
Food production has been hampered by high costs, damage to machinery and st