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I wouldn't be surprised if it's also overlapping long tails of everything: from COVID global trade and shipping disruptions to war in Ukraine affecting grain sh

• Paul-Craft 3y ago
  Let's not forget natural gas is the main source of methane used to make synthetic fertilizers. Since Russian natural gas isn't flowing the way it used to, I can imagine that would increase the price of food.
• CannisterFlux 3y ago
  "Climate change" is probably the long tail of everything you could add to the list. The flooding in Pakistan in 2022 for example. Remember that one? It destroyed crops and then there's the draining and fixing the land afterwards, infrastructure damage making planting for the next season more difficult, and so on. Pakistan was the 3rd global exporter of rice after India and Thailand in 2021.