The extremist weather raises the prices of food around the world

In a recent study, it was revealed that unusual climate phenomena cause direct short -lived rise in the prices of basic foods, asking poor families to eat less food. The study conducted by the Barcelona Center for the Super Computing has linked dozens of extremist climate phenomena with sharp heights in food prices, which emphasize the weakness of the resilience of diet before the environmental shocks, according to the Financial Times. Studies on the effect of high temperatures on crops and food supplies and general inflation in food prices have already been revealed. But the new study shows that some foods also a sharp increase in their short -term prices, which contribute to inflation. An unprecedented rise in food prices The price of olive oil in Europe rose 50% last year after long droughts in southern Spain during the years 2022 and 2023. In India, in May last year, the prices of onions caused 89% prices rose 70% after the record heat was recorded during the summer. In the United States, vegetables in Arizona rose 80% in November 2022 after drought. The most important researcher Maximilian Cotz, from the Barcelona Center for the upper computer, indicated that many of the weather phenomena that led to these increases in prices were “completely unprecedented from a historical perspective”, and pointed out that “the temperature was far from the range we expected in a stable climate.” According to the study, the high prices of food designs often followed extreme air phenomena with only a few months. It is a pattern that the researchers have warned that it is likely to become more common as climate changes worsen. “The extremist air phenomena have become worse and frequent than they were 30-40 years ago, and we expect it to continue, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.” Extensive economic consequences expand the impact of high food prices around the world. The price of chocolate jumped after three times the high prices of cocoa in Britain due to drought and intense heat in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Raj Patel, from the University of Texas, who did not participate in the report, pointed out that “market speculation and wrong policy often exacerbated the impact of the high prices of food -related foods,” and explained that “the high temperatures in Russia led to the fuel of forest fires that led to the high rates of chicken.” The study concluded that when the costs rise, poor families eat less food, and especially the consumption of fruits and vegetables is influenced by the severity of the high food prices.