IRIN (March 9): "According to the government’s national bank, Rastriya Bank, food inflation outpaced that in India last year, reaching 17 percent compared to only 10 percent in India.
Nepal has one of South Asia’s worst malnutrition rates, with almost 50 percent of children under five stunted and suffering from chronic malnutrition, according to the government’s Demographic and Health Survey (DHS).
Floods and landslides in several districts throughout the country had affected summer crop production in 2008, damaged farmland and severely cut crop yields, particularly of rice and millet.
At the beginning of 2008, Nepal became vulnerable due to drought, over-reliance on rain-fed cultivation, heavy dependence on food and oil imports, poor transportation infrastructure, and a high percentage of average household income - 60 percent - spent on food, according to WFP."
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