UNITED NATIONS Homme PSNY X Nike Air Force 1 High Blanche Pas Cher , Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday major disruptions in food and fuel imports across the border between India and Nepal have severely affected Nepal's supplies and caused a worrying increase in food prices.

"With Nepal heavily dependent on imports, especially from India, severe shortages are now being felt in local markets," Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here. "The cost of some basic food staples, such as cooking oil, rice Homme Nike SF-AF1 Air Force 1 High Boots Noir Pas Cher , lentils, sugar and salt have soared in recent weeks as supplies dwindle."

"The World Food Programme says that if trade remains restricted and food prices continue to rise, a serious humanitarian crisis will be hard to avoid," he said. "Coming so soon after the recent earthquake, this crisis could severely test people's ability to cope, and may lead to an increase in malnutrition."

The UN food agency "urges all sides to once again allow the free flow of food items across the border to ensure that Nepalis, especially those who struggle on a day-to-day basis to feed their families, are not the ones who bear the burden of this protracted political stand-off Homme Nike Air Force 270 Metallic Noir Pas Cher ," he said.

"If trade remains restricted and food prices continue to rise, a serious humanitarian crisis will be hard to avoid," said David Kaatrud, WFP regional director for Asia and the Pacific, in a news release.

According to WFP, the border blockage that began in September to protest Nepal's new constitution has already slowed trade, causing a food and fuel shortage since the last three months.

"People are struggling to feed their families as the cost of food rises beyond their grasp," Kaatrud said. "Coming so soon after the recent earthquake Homme Nike Air Force 1 Low 07 Team Rouge Pas Cher , this crisis could severely test people's ability to cope, and may lead to an increase in malnutrition."

According to WFP, Nepal is heavily dependent on imports, especially from India and the border disruptions have led to the cost of some basic food staples, such as cooking oil, rice, lentils, sugar and salt to soar in recent weeks as supplies dwindled.

The UN agency said that the average price of lentils Homme Nike Air Force 1 Low Just Do It Blanche Pas Cher , pulses and cooking oil have increased by more than 30 percent since August and more than 50 percent since last year and in remote areas, including parts of the country worst hit by the April 25 earthquake and aftershocks, the price of food commodities has increased even further, doubling in some cases.

In Gorkha, a community close to the earthquake epicentre, a 25 kg sack of rice now costs 5,000 Nepali Rupees (some 46.80 U.S. dollars), up from 2 Homme Nike Air Max Fury Blanche Pas Cher ,500 Rupees (23.40 U.S. dollars) before the blockade and the price of cooking oil and sugar has also doubled in the town, said WFP.

Additionally, WFP said that the price of fuel also increased across the country, with the cost of refilling a cylinder of cooking gas costing from 1,500 Nepali rupees (14 dollars) before the blockade to between 8,000 and 11,000 rupees (75 dollars and 102 dollars) today, an increase of as much as 630 percent.

At the same time Homme Nike Air VaporMax Plus Marine Bleu Pas Cher , the UN agency noted that a quarter of people in Nepal on less than 1.25 U.S. dollars a day, and on average spend 60 percent of their income on food, which means that most have only a limited capacity to cope with shocks such as disasters and soaring food prices.

"WFP urges all sides to once again allow the free flow of food items across the border to ensure that Nepalis, especially those who struggle on a day-to-day basis to feed their families, are not the ones who bear the burden of this protracted political stand-off," said Kaatrud.

Moreover, WFP warned that the fuel shortage caused by the border blockages was hampering earthquake relief efforts and that there have been severe delays in WFP efforts to provide food assistance to more than 224,000 earthquake-affected people.

The agency said that it could only deliver one-third of food supplies earmarked for distribution by the end of the year and added that the delivery of non-food items Homme Nike Air VaporMax Flyknit Bleu Orbit Pas Cher , such as medicine and shelter material for winter, has also been severely affected by the dispute.

Earlier this week, UN agencies in a joint statement warned that the "health and humanitarian implications of the present scenario are grave" in Nepal and urged all sides to ease an effective blockade of the country's southern border.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Netherlands scored a much needed win, beating Bulgaria 3-1 in Sunday's World Cup qualifiers, but the mission remains difficult for the number three of the 2014 World Cup.

After losing 4-0 to France on Thursday in the Stade de France, the Dutch team must win all the remaining three matches: the ones against Bulgaria at home Homme Nike Air Max 97 Blanche Pas Cher , Belarus away and at home against Sweden, preferably with a lot of goals.

"Oranje" set the first step with the 3-1 win over Bulgaria, one of their rivals for the second place in Group A, in the Amsterdam Arena.

Dutch head coach Dick Advocaat had to do without suspended Kevin Strootman, who received a red card on Thursday, and injured Robin van Persie, who had just made his comeback against France, and he put Wesley Sneijder on the bench after a disappointing performance in Saint-Denis. Tonny Vilhena (for Strootman) Homme Nike Air Max 97 Triple Noir Pas Cher , Kenny Tete (for Timothy Fosu-Mensah) and Davy Propper (for Sneijder) were the new names in the line-up.

Propper proved Advocaat made a good choice by opening the scoring in the 7th minute. The Brighton midfielder tipped in a cross from the left by Daley Blind. Before that goal captain Arjen Robben missed an opportunity for the Dutch and Vincent Janssen and Quincy Promes also had failed goal attempts. On the other side the Bulgarians came close with a header by Georgi Kostadinov on the post.

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