date:Sep 17, 2012
tion. In this context, they highlighted that diversifying diets to consume more local produced food such as beans, cassava and quinoa - 2013 is the International Year of the Quinoa - were strategies that help poor populations cope with high food prices.
Graziano da Silva and Yauhar also stressed the need for the international donor community to increase its immediate and long-term support to poor countries. According to the Wolrd Food Programme (WFP), every 10 per cent increase in the price of