A development economist, Ken Ife, says insecurity has been the major cause of rising food prices. “Fewer farmers are growing crops, and many can no longer go to the farm out of fear. Eighty per cent of rural production, processing and marketing of food is done by women. “Insecurity has made it also dangerous for these women to go to harvest their crops,’’ he said in an interview on Thursday in Abuja. The economist explained that there were five components of inflation, and the foodstuff basket index was the highest. “You have the foodstuff basket index, and it is