CLAIM · ASSESSED ~ · CONFIDENCE 0.62SINGLE ORIGIN AT PUBLISH

FAO's global cereal price index fell in June but remained above its level a year earlier.

WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because export bans, war-blocked shipping lanes and drought are keeping bread and rice prices high and leaving near-record numbers of people in acute hunger, especially across Africa and the Middle East.

Part of the monitored dynamic Global Grain Security · VUCA INDEX 47/100

EVIDENCE CHAIN · 0

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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from forbes.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com AUG 2.

Extracted AUG 1; approved AUG 2 at 0.62.

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