Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday blamed the West for the soaring food prices, while attacking the US policy in the Middle East.

Addressing a world summit on food security, hosted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Ahmadinejad said the current high food prices were due to a set of major reasons.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a speech during a summit on food security at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) 

"The devaluation of the dollar and the global inflation, and some others consider environmental changes and droughts, the increase in consumption, the inappropriateness of agricultural methods and the low level of production efficiency, and the witness of farmers," he said.

But he accused the West of intentionally devaluing the US dollar, fueling the rise in oil and food prices.

"Today the planners of the big powers act in order to devaluate(the) dollar," he said, adding the western countries intended to "impose their will on the market."