Cereal numbers: the fall in food prices

This week Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s biggest industrialist, warns in The Economist that disaster is looming for his country as the war in Ukraine continues. What does it mean when members of the elite risk broadcasting their discontent? Our correspondent describes life in Kyiv ...  Afficher plus

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War and blockades in Ukraine are the largest but far from the only problems squeezing the global food system—and with prices already way up, a <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_sourc ...  Afficher plus

An admission that the country’s food situation is “tense” is a rare glimpse into the compounding effects of pandemic policies and crop failures. Adherents of wild conspiracy theories in America tend to be white, and often evangelical. But Hispanic Americans are getting

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