Rice price spike offers preview of climate food disruption

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 13, 2023 12:24 am

Rice prices jumped 9.8 percent in August, bucking decreases in other staples, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said last week.

That followed the July decision by India, which accounts for 40 percent of global rice exports, to ban the overseas sale of non-basmati rice.

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