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Rice price spike offers preview of climate food disruption
Rice price spike offers preview of climate food disruption
Business and Economy
by  AFP

A 15-year high in rice prices, prompted by top exporter India's restrictions on overseas sales, should be a wake-up call on how climate change can disrupt food supplies, experts say. 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.