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Forecast: If China Blockaded Taiwan, What Would Food Cost?
This has not happened. It is a scenario, and the numbers in it are assumptions we state openly rather than forecasts. But the chain from …
Research: One Country Holds Half the World's Grain Reserves
China holds 53% of the world's wheat, rice and maize reserves with 17% of its people. Meanwhile a Yemeni family pays $10.62 for a kilogramme …
Research: The Poorest People Pay the Most for Food. Here Is the Proof
A kilogramme of rice costs $0.74 in Colombia and $0.46 in Burundi. The Burundian pays less. But that kilogramme takes 88% of a day's average …
Research: Where War Doubles the Price of Food, and Where It Does Not
Sudan pays 5.5 times what its neighbours pay for the same staples. Yemen pays 4.9 times. But six other conflict countries in the same data …
What ₦10,000 of Food Bought in 2020, and What It Buys Today
In 2020 a basket of rice, beans, garri and oil cost ₦5,111 in Lagos, so ₦10,000 bought nearly two of them. That same basket now …
The Ukraine War Reached Your Kitchen. It Did Not Get There Alone.
Retail wheat flour jumped 17.7 index points the month Russia invaded, and the median country paid 26% more by its 2022 peak. But cassava, a …
Did Nigeria's Local Rice Policy Work?
Imported rice cost 6% more than local rice in 2015. By 2026 it cost 62% more, and in dollars local rice fell 29% while imported …
Nigeria's Food Prices Rose 907% in Naira Since 2015 but Fell in Dollars
World Food Programme data for 2015 to 2026 shows yam up 907% in naira but just 45% in dollars, and for eight of thirteen staples …