"Certain regions that are prone to drought and weather variation are showing signs of cyclical food shortages," Sheila Sisulu, deputy executive director with the U.N. agency, told Reuters. "The Horn of Africa immediately comes to mind.
"Much as they (Ethiopia) have some areas where they have enough grain, the Somali area is also being affected not only by the fighting but also what seems like a drought developing," she said on a visit to London.
Sisulu said the WFP sourced most of its food from local countries it operated in and was "cautiously optimistic" about volatile prices in global markets.
"The analysis out there is saying that the impact on wheat is not as bad as it was in 2008," she said.
"But given the floods in Pakistan in particular and of course in Australia, now Brazil, all the major grain producing countries that also produce wheat we might see a problem as the year goes on."
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