Sheltered from a crisis

These figures on the food crisis are quite incredible. The price of wheat has risen 130% since March last year. The increase in the price of rice has had huge effects worldwide.

Some of the effects to be caused by the crisis include a new craze for eating spaghetti in Liberia, families in Bangladesh surviving on one meal a day, 100 million extra families plunged into poverty, and food riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt.

Read the BBC's Q&A on the crisis.

If ever there was a good reason to become a vegetarian, this is one.