World food prices surged strongly in recent years, with two waves of rising prices in 2007-08 and 2010-11. For food-importing countries affected at the same time by significant levels of undernourishment and malnutrition, sudden rises in the international price of food may have a strong impact...

This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the period 1996-2002, based on information systematically collected weekly by the World Food Programme in all major cities (Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and...