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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Butler

Rising food prices driven by climate crisis threaten world’s poorest, report finds

A female worker in Ghana processes harvested cocoa pods.
Unprecedented monthly temperatures in February 2024 after droughts across Ghana and Ivory Coast led to global cocoa prices spiking by 300%. Photograph: Francis Kokoroko/Reuters


Climate change-induced food price shocks are on the rise and could lead to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest as the world’s poorest are hit by shortages of food staples.

New research links last year’s surges in the price of potatoes in the UK, cabbages in South Korea, onions in India, and cocoa in Ghana to weather extremes that “exceeded all historical precedent prior to 2020”.

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