Prices of sugar, grain and oilseed have hit the roof and touched a record high, recent report reveals.

Published by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the index tracks the prices of a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, and has risen for six consecutive months.
The FAO food index hit 215 points last month, up from 206 in November, to break the 213.5 registered in June 2008. It shows a dramatic rise in prices for food in a decade. In 2000 the index stood at 90 and did not break through 100 until 2004.
Abdolreza Abbassian, FAO economist, told the Guardian: "We are entering a danger territory."
But he stressed that the situation was not yet as bad as 2008.
Sugar and meat prices are at record levels, while cereal prices are back at the levels last seen in 2008, when riots in Haiti killed four people and riots in Cameroon left 40 dead.
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Abbassian said he now expects food prices to start to fall because many poorer countries had good harvests last year.
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Source-ANI