Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat

Japan Today | Oct 29, 2022 at 11:38 PM
  • 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.