India’s decision to halt some rice exports to prevent high prices at home has had affects stretching across Asia to Africa, observers say.
Rice prices in Kenya, for example, jumped when Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is a big producer of fertilizer. That problem combined with years of little rain in the Horn of Africa hurt East Africa’s rice production. Low-cost rice from India helped fill Africa’s needs, feeding hundreds of thousands of people who live in poor areas of Nairobi on less than $2 a day.
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