Syria: Bread Prices Up Nearly 90 per cent, Pushing More People into Hunger, UN Report Warns

Jul 23, 2015 | United Nations
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Syria’s food production in 2015 remains at 40 per cent below its pre-crisis levels, impacting the price of bread, which has spiralled by 87 per cent, and shrinking poultry production by half, according to a United Nations agency report released today that warns that “the risk of irreversible damage to the children is real, with tragic future consequences.”