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With food prices continuing to climb, the UN is warning of crippling global shortages

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May 23, 2022 News from NPR, World

A Combine harvesting machine reaps wheat in a field of the Hula valley near the town of Kiryat Shmona in the north of Israel on May 22, 2022. Wheat prices have soared in recent months, driven by the war in Ukraine and a crippling heat wave in India.

Fears of a global food crisis are growing because of the shock of the war in Ukraine, climate change and rising inflation.

(Image credit: Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)

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