In a follow-up to an earlier Bloomberg story on India’s rice ban, the Bloomberg newsletter discusses “how extreme weather and food protectionism are combining to make rice — vital to the diets of billions in Asia and Africa — much more expensive.
That’s bad news for some of the world’s most disadvantaged. The staple makes up as much as 60% of all calorie intake for people in parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, and even more in nations like Bangladesh.”
The article presents an IFPRI map that shows rice consumption worldwide.
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