This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Global food prices shot up nearly 33 percent in September compared with the same period the year before. That’s according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)‘s monthly Food Price Index, which also found that global prices have risen by more than three percent since July, reaching levels not seen since 2011. The Food Price Index is designed to capture the combined outcome of changes in […]