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Price monitoring and analysis country brief - Eritrea

Year of publication 2012

Author Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Among the causes of vulnerability to food insecurity are economic constraints and high international food and fuel prices. According to international agencies, widespread lack of access to food is reported and there is a general agreement on the extremely alarming hunger situation. It is reported that countries receiving Eritrean asylum seekers escaping their country face violence and torture. The Government is supporting agricultural production with several irrigation programs in differen t regions.

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