date:Sep 06, 2013
ent higher than their opening levels and the highest since 2001/02.
FAO's price index hit a record peak of 238 points in February 2011, when high food prices helped drive the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
In the summer of 2012 the index began surging to levels close to another peak seen in 2008, in which year there were riots, some deadly, in several poor countries.