12/14/2023 0 Comments Big farm mobile harvest farm cup eventLast year, as many as 783 million people went hungry – the result of conflict, Covid and climate, the UN said in a recent report. It comes at a time of acute food insecurity. ![]() If India, the world’s largest exporter, sticks by its ban, millions of people are likely to be plunged into hunger by skyrocketing rice prices, which are already at an 11-year high, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Swapping loo rolls for rice, people have already started panic buying in the West, including in Canada and Australia, while the price of a 20-pound bag has more than tripled in parts of the US – forcing shops to introduce limits on purchases. ![]() India’s decision to take 10 million tonnes of rice off the global export market has sent shock waves across almost every continent.
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