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China is increasingly pushing for food security and self-sufficiency, and this has been widely reported by the media – see this Bloomberg article and this SCMP article. Geopolitics certainly play an important part, especially in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. But China's struggle with an ever-growing appetite for

The World Bank recently stated in a report that there is still a high level of domestic food price inflation worldwide. The increase in global food prices has been attributed by some media sources to the ongoing Russian-Ukraine conflict (see for example, this CNN article) since both countries are significant