UN: Food crises loom

by Associated Press - Moises Cruz

Jun 08, 2022 12:26 am

ROME: Two UN food agencies have warned about multiple, looming food crises on the planet, driven by climate 'shocks' like drought and worsened by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine that have sent fuel and food prices soaring.

A jeepney driver gets gas up at a gasoline station along Sta. Cruz Avenue in Manila, on 7 June 2022. Oil firms announced another round of fuel price hikes, as Caltex, Flying V, Petron, Pilipinas Shell and Seaoil, said that they will hike prices per liter of gasoline by P2.70, diesel by P6.55 and kerosene by P5.45 pesos. The adjustments will take effect at 6am on Tuesday, June 7. (PHOTO: MIKE ALQUINTO

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