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Why China, More Than The War in Ukraine, Threatens Global Food Security

At the start of 2023, the surge in agricultural prices, which marked the year that has just ended, seems to be behind us. The prices of the most affected products, such as cereals and oilseeds, have indeed returned to their level of the end of 2021. The prices of energy and fertilizers have come down from their 2022 peak without however returning to their 2021 level. .
 
This return of prices to lower levels should not, however, make us forget that prices were already very high in 2021, which clearly shows that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not the primary cause of this crisis. , but an aggravating factor in a tense situation that pre-existed him.
 
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