I can completely understand why India has made the choice to ban rice exports, because they’ve got to put their first priority on keeping their own people fed. But it’s making the whole global food situation worse.

I keep having this sinking feeling we’re going to experience something like the Bronze Age Collapse - part of the reason all the Bronze Age societies collapsed so suddenly wasn’t just the Sea People, it was that they were all so interconnected trade-wise that when one society collapsed, all of them did because supply chain links snapped. I feel like climate change is our current-day “Sea People,” only so much worse.

Just a reminder that this is the result of the greenhouse gases emitted a generation ago, and that since we went from 355ppm to 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. The war in Ukraine and global food shortage is a blip in what's to come.

I wonder, what will be the big event that will change the world pespective on climate change?

People are aware, but they are not really worried. I think is very difficult make a transition to a ecofriendly way of life, mostly because of the grow factor, if someone use less efecient production models, they will lose profit.

Anyway I hope we get really smart with solutions soon otherwise get used to the old feudal ways.

And so began the war for water and food. It will not be a war with only guns and classical battles. It's about power, influence, treasons, etc.

A war were the basic human has nothing to say and will be neglected. It's about the upper level, the corporations and the capital will dictate who has access to food and water.

It's time to stop the infinite grow of the capital which isn't sustainable on earth and elsewhere. This will make possible to take care of our environment and the planet to feed everyone correctly.

The law of unintended consequences. Do these farmers stop growing rice, banned export, and grow something else profitable. I'm guessing a government ban suggests price controls or curbs.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The move has triggered fears of global food inflation, hurt the livelihoods of some farmers and prompted several rice-dependent countries to seek urgent exemptions from the ban.

Economists say the ban is just the latest move to disrupt global food supplies, which has suffered from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as weather events such as El Niño.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has encouraged India to remove the restrictions, with the organization’s chief economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, telling reporters last month that it was “likely to exacerbate” the uncertainty of food inflation.

Indian farmers account for nearly half of the country’s workforce, according to government data, with rice paddy mainly cultivated in central, southern, and some northern states.

The World Meteorological Organization last month warned that governments must prepare for more extreme weather events and record temperatures, as it declared the onset of the warming phenomenon El Niño.

El Niño is a natural climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean that brings warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures and has a major influence on weather across the globe, affecting billions of people.

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I can't live in a developsd country with prices going up. May be I should move to India? Has anyone ever been to india ? How is it?