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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)
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The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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[–] lasagna@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder what this will mean for their farmers. Won't they just be tempted to scale down farming operations? If I go to the shop here it's basically all Indian brand rice if not for the supermarket brand ones (which is probably Indian too).