As Drought Hits Key Crops, Fears of Food Crisis Loom
<div class='node-body'><p>Fears of a continued heatwave and drought across the US midwest -- which many scientists credit to climate change associated with global warming -- are leading analysts to predict lower yields of corn, soybean, and wheat in the nation's agricultural belt this growing season. The market predictions that parallel these kinds of droughts can drive global food prices up wildly, as happened during <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/18-4">the food crisis of 2008</a>, when commodity speculators exacerbate the price of these staple crops.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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