[lovich]

Food prices are higher because global agricultural output had a major drop last year[1]. Every major food producing region of the world was hit by covid induced labor and equipment shortages, bad weather, or war, or some combination of them all.

[1]https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf

[webmobdev]

Not to mention that a quarter of the world's wheat come from Russia and Ukraine - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-... ...