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This is the Indicator from Pan at Money, I'm Darien Woods.

The pandemic, historic droughts, and now the war in Ukraine have been driving up food

prices, which reached an all-time high in February according to the UN Food and Agriculture

Organization.

Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat, Ukraine is the fifth largest, and all

kinds of other cereal and crops for vegetable oils are key exports from Ukraine.

So it can be pretty safe to say that the war is going to send global food prices higher

and higher.

But the consequences of these higher food prices will be far greater for some countries

than others, maybe even destabilizing.

And hearing about this terrible situation, I couldn't stop thinking about an episode we

did on this very topic last September, it was with my co-host Sally Herschips.

And we heard from Eda Rudolfsen, a doctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute,

Oslo in Uppsala University.

She studied his food prices.

So today on the show, we're re-broadcasting that episode for you with an update at the

very end.

That's it for today.

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