Asia Pacific Food Situation Update
Themes:
- Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines banana harvest hard
- Global food prices fall slightly in November
- Afghan domestic wheat flour prices rising
- Asia cereals harvest at record level in 2012
- Iran paying higher prices for commodities because of sanctions
- Viet Nam achieves record rice exports
- Indonesia and the Philippines likely to cut rice imports
- Scientists unlock key sections of wheat genome
- Favourable weather helping Afghan wheat crop
- Russian wheat threatened by coldest winter in years
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