>In Brazil, a crippling drought has not only driven up local food prices, it also has increased the global prices of sugar and coffee. Brazil is the world’s largest sugar producer, and it commands more than a third of the global coffee supply.
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>In China’s agricultural heartland of Henan province, an exceptionally dry season, followed by exceptionally heavy rains, drove up the price of everyday vegetables. And in southern Africa, rising temperatures and a drought driven by the El Niño weather phenomenon earlier this year destroyed the region’s main cereal crop, maize, leading to what the United Nations this week called the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades.
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>In Brazil, a crippling drought has not only driven up local food prices, it also has increased the global prices of sugar and coffee. Brazil is the world’s largest sugar producer, and it commands more than a third of the global coffee supply.
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>In China’s agricultural heartland of Henan province, an exceptionally dry season, followed by exceptionally heavy rains, drove up the price of everyday vegetables. And in southern Africa, rising temperatures and a drought driven by the El Niño weather phenomenon earlier this year destroyed the region’s main cereal crop, maize, leading to what the United Nations this week called the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades.