“What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world?” writes the BBC. “India is the world’s top rice exporter, accounting for some 40% of the global trade in the cereal. Among the major buyers of rice are China, the Philippines and Nigeria.”
“I suspect that the action to ban non-basmati rice exports is largely precautionary and hopefully it will prove temporary,” said Joseph Glauber of International Food Policy Research Institute.
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Republished in Ghana Web, The Daily Observer (Bangladesh), and Hawaii Public Radio.