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Global food security is already under threat since Russia halted an agreement allowing Ukraine to export wheat and the El Nino weather phenomenon hampers rice production. Now, rice prices are soaring -- Vietnam's rice export prices, for instance, have reached a 15-year high -- putting the most vulnerable people in some of the poorest nations at risk.
Countries worldwide are scrambling to secure rice after a partial ban on exports by India cut global supplies by roughly a fifth.
FRANCIS Ndege isn't sure if his customers in Africa's largest slum can afford to keep buying rice from him.
To many of us, rice is only one among many foods available on a daily base. It is a choice,
From dumping their produce on the streets earlier this year due to low prices to making windfall gains, India’s tomato farmers are currently traversing a cliffhanging boom-and-bust cycle