The world’s most populous nation is extra poorly endowed with farmland, per capita, than Greece or Algeria. That’s going to make life more durable as a warming planet destabilizes the cycles of rain and solar which have saved it fed for millennia.

India final week suspended exports of non-basmati sorts of rice after heavy monsoon rainfall broken newly planted crops as a result of be harvested in winter. With rice retail costs up 3% in the past month and 11.5% over the previous 12 months, the federal government hopes to quell meals inflation by reserving extra grain for the home market.