Hungary: Our cocoa and pasta could also become roughly more expensive

Published 2021년 9월 28일

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Climate change is causing extreme weather conditions that are impacting agricultural production around the world, leading to increased food prices. In Canada, the world's largest durum wheat exporter, a hot and dry summer is expected to raise pasta prices due to an 88% rise in durum wheat costs. Africa's cocoa production is also threatened by drought and larger farms' inability to irrigate. Brazil's severe drought, the worst in a century, is damaging crops and raising the prices of key commodities like orange juice, sugar, and coffee. The article highlights the potential for global food price increases due to these weather and labor challenges, with yields potentially falling by 10% over the next three decades.

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16 Yields in Brazil have been destroyed in many parts of Hungary, but agriculture is facing problems around the world due to the increasingly crazy weather caused by climate change. Short-term effects can often be averted, but if extreme weather conditions persist, it can also have a serious impact on food prices. It was a particularly hot and dry summer in the northern half of the American continent, which affected Canadian durum wheat production. However, as Canada is the world’s largest exporter of durum wheat, which is the main raw material for some pasta, many market analysts expect pasta prices to rise worldwide. The process has already begun: the price of durum wheat has risen by 88 per cent, which is projected to increase the price of pasta by as much as 50 per cent. They also complain about “crazy” weather due to climate change in Cameroon, Africa’s third largest cocoa-producing country. In the past, there was always heavy rain in December and then again in March, which ...

Source: Hvg