Extreme weather is just one of the many threats to food supplies that are once again mounting around the world.
This week, top rice exporter India banned some shipments of the commodity - a staple for about half of the world’s population - to keep domestic prices in check. Russia quit a deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to flow safely across the Black Sea.
Extreme heat that’s engulfing huge swaths of Asia, Europe and North America is just the latest challenge in what’s been a rough year for farmers. They’ve had to grapple with bouts of extreme weather, including prolonged droughts, heavy rain and floods. In Sicily, some tomatoes have ominous-looking black rings, the result of a so-called blossom end rot, when extreme weather renders plants calcium-deficient.
"This is not a just a regular hot summer,” said Lorenzo Bazzana, an agronomist at Coldiretti."They say plants should adapt to the climate changes, but we are talking about cultures that evolved slowly over thousands of years, they cannot adjust to a climate that keeps changing so quickly and so dramatically.”
More concerns stem from India’s steps to ban exports of non-basmati white rice to put a lid on inflation.
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