The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – or FAO -- says that agricultural commodity prices should ease from their recent record peaks. But, over the next decade prices are expected to average well above mean levels of the past decade. High food prices will hit the poor and hungry the hardest. Record high food prices and the danger of hunger in poor countries will dominate the FAO summit to be held in Rome next week. As in rest of the world, food prices have been on the constant rise in India. While India has not yet experienced riots over food prices, the outlook is critical there – India is home to the largest number of the world's poor. The Indian government attributes the situation to the global market. But experts blame economic policies which, they say, have led to the erosion India’s agricultural base – a safety net that provides subsistence to more than half of the nation’s population. FSRN's Bismillah Geelani has the details.

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