Source: Rachel Treisman, WUNC, 4/8/22


Workers plow wheat in Husakiv village in western Ukraine late last month. Russia and Ukraine account for a large percentage of global wheat exports. A United Nations agency says the war in Ukraine sent food commodity prices soaring in March to the highest levels it has ever recorded. The Food and Agriculture Organization announced on Friday that its FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a "basket of commonly-traded food commodities," averaged 159.3 points in March.

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