There's a real perfect storm of issues that are, i i keep the food system. Many of them arsid of yu crane. A lot of them are due to clemate change. You've got india and north of india, itte pares and other areas which have been battered by silver winds and hail in february. And then intense heat, like aa really natural heat wave in the recent weeks. So the wheat harvest is going to be down meanwhile, in china, but you got floods earlier in the season,. This year's crop could be the worst in history, according to the government. All these problems arereally bad, and you can expect
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