UN flags corn worries as food prices renew rises

The United Nations' food agency flagged worries over corn supplies as it revealed that food prices had resumed their upward path last month, boosted by a recovery in grain prices. The Food and Agriculture Organization said that, thanks to "depleting coarse grain inventories", world cereal stocks would fall this year to their lowest since 2008, despite rises of 3% in rice and wheat production.

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