- Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger and poverty.
- Changes to global food systems in recent decades mean countries rely less on stocks of staple crops.
- The last time the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index was this high was in 2008, when a global food crisis drove riots and instability in countries across the world.
Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat
