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Doesn't take much to make hash of this claim. Price is a function of demand, which the OP specifically referenced, and most of the other answers fixated on supply. Bread prices were well under-inflation in 2018 (0.6%) and at about inflationary rates in 2019 (2.3%) in the United States for example, providing ample evidence that demand remained either lower ...
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Claim is not true.
Widely exaggerating the situation in 2018, very misleading for the results in 2019, linking up a weather event to climate change influencing markets when the data doesn't really support this. For the global level. The impact of a single bad European harvest summer was quite noticeable,and is cited by the FAO as such, in conjunction with ...
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Two great other answers that still miss a few points.
The claim as such is whoefully ambiguous in the original, and thus there are difficulties in translating it; and interpreting it.
Schon ein einziger Dürresommer in Europa 2018 führte dazu, dass die Getreideernte in diesem Jahr weltweit den Bedarf nicht mehr deckt (noch gibt es aber Reserven).
As OP ...
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The Food and Agricultre Organization of the United Nations (FAO) track cereal production (which is an interchangeable term for grain production).
In their November 2019 Cereal Suppy and Demand Brief they list the production figures for the past three years, and estimates for this year.
The footnote #1 explains "Production data refer to the calendar year of ...
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This is a weird claim. Unproven. Unfounded. Alarmist. Wrong.
Meant to imply climate change is there with one drought summer in Europe already lead to rising food prices and hunger?
Global supplies of major cereals have exceeded total consumption in recent years, leading to a significant build-up of inventories and much lower prices in international ...
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There is one important assumption in RCP8.5 that makes it unrealistic.
Quoting RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions Climatic Change (2011) 109: 33:
Coal use in particular increases almost 10 fold by 2100
Fig. 5
Development of global primary energy supply in RCP8.5 (left-hand panel) and global primary energy ...
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