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Why blocking Hormuz could threaten the world's food supply

While most of the world is focused on the impact of oil disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, the current blockade could also pose long-term risks to the global food supply.

Euronews

Hog Futures Market Is Buffeted by U.S. Pork Export Concerns. Can Bullish Domestic Fundamentals Save the Day?

U.S.-China trade tensions are weighing on the lean hog futures market.

Barchart

How Trump's Tariff Threats Could Impact Latin America

Analysts describe different scenarios based on potential outcomes, including disruptions to supply chains, acquiescence to Trump's policy demands and closer relationships with U.S. trade rivals

Latin Times

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Texas farmers face mounting expenses as droughts worsen

Rising temperatures intensify drought and increase costs for the heavily subsidized crop insurance program.

The Texas Tribune

Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge

Cost of sugar surges to highest level since 2011 after dry spell in India and drought in Thailand, and price hike has already filtered down to desserts

The Guardian - US

Food prices are rising as countries limit exports. Blame climate change, El Nino and Russia's war

Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials

The Independent UK

‘Major disruptor’: El Niño threatens the world’s rice supplies

After India imposed an export ban on rice following destructive rains, prices have soared – now rising temperatures put crops across south-east Asia at risk

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Russia fires warning shots at ‘Ukraine-bound’ international cargo ship in Black Sea

Russian warship also scrambled a helicopter to inspect the cargo vessel

The Independent UK

Mideast countries that are already struggling fear price hikes after Russia exits grain deal

Egypt and other lower-income Middle Eastern countries like Lebanon and Pakistan are worried about what comes next after Russia pulled out of a crucial wartime grain deal

The Independent UK

Russian missile attacks leave few options for Ukrainian farmers looking to export grain

The collapse of the Black Sea grain deal and a series of missile strikes on Ukrainian grain silos and ports have left farmers with few options to export their grain — and all of them are getting more expensive

The Independent UK

Russia's nixing of Ukraine grain deal deepens worries about global food supply

Since the war began, there's been concern about getting Ukrainian grain to countries in need. A deal was struck in 2022 to keep exports flowing — but Russia put an end to it on Monday.

WEKU

Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables

Around the world, food prices are persistently, painfully high

The Independent UK

The impact of the Ukraine war on food supplies: 'It could have been so much worse'

That's the view of Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He considers the fear the war would lead to a surge in food prices – and a dramatic worsening of world hunger.

WEKU

How did the Russia-Ukraine war trigger a global food crisis?

Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley and more than 70 percent of its sunflower oil.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

How Did Russia-Ukraine War Trigger a Food Crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70%…

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Russia’s war on Ukraine heats up cooking oil prices in global squeeze

Global cooking oil prices have been rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent costs spiraling, another rising cost as inflation soars.

The Independent UK

Russia's war heats up cooking oil prices in global squeeze

Cooking oil prices have been rising worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and Russia's war in Ukraine has sent those costs spiraling

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The Conversation

Russia-Ukraine conflict is driving up wheat prices: this could fuel instability in Sudan

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted agricultural production and trade from one of the world’s major food exporting regions. The war threatens to drive rising food prices still higher and create scarcity, especially for regions most dependent on wheat and other exports from Russia and Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Global food prices rise to highest ever levels after Russian invasion

World wheat prices soared by 19.7% in March as war in Ukraine disrupted Black Sea exports, FAO price index reveals

Tribune News Service

Putin’s war risks more global hunger, destabilizing poor nations

President Joe Biden and the leaders of top U.S. allies are exploring how to keep Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from causing a spike in global hunger as the war increasingly disrupts supplies of wheat and other goods from a region known as one of the world’s breadbaskets.

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