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The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)

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The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 151 points 2 years ago (39 children)

Started the food wars have

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago (32 children)

Can we please not have silly jokes on a serious topic like global hunger?

This is one thing I don't want from reddit

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

You must be fun at parties....

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