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Exporting America's drought

US agricultural exports to China become costly in times of drought

Lifestyle

Experts say the US drought will be little more than a nuisance for China, but a nuisance that a transitioning Chinese government could do without.

Calculating global hunger and food prices (DATA)

Politics

Southeast Asia: Food crisis feed

Lifestyle

India: Domestic drought looms larger than global food crisis

Lifestyle

Food crisis: a new normal?

Agence France-Presse
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Drought hits European grain production

Economics

Experts don’t predict panic despite concern over rising prices.

Cruel season for some, windfall for others

Economics

Latin America’s biggest food producers may benefit from drought, while poor face hunger.

Chile suffers drought too

Politics

As the US takes stock of parched farmland, Chile declares ‘catastrophe areas’ after a more than two-year drought.

El Nino is about to make food insecurity even worse

Economics

As drought parches the US, Mexico and Chile, meteorologists warn El Nino could further devastate food supplies.

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