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What Happens to Global Food Prices Every Time a War Breaks Out?

Six wars, six different effects on the price of food somewhere else in the world, and two that barely moved it at all

Global Food Price Impact Monitor, DT Linux

Global Food Price Impact Monitor, DT Linux
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Global Food Price Impact Monitor

An interactive companion to DT Linux's briefing on food prices and war, comparing six conflicts by how their effects actually traveled, or didn't, through global commodity markets: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the 2026 Iran war, Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, Syria's civil war, Sudan's civil war, and the Gaza war.

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Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization, Food Price Index historical database and monthly releases · UN News and the World Economic Forum, on Ukraine's wartime export losses · the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on fertilizer prices · Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica, on the 2026 Iran war and Strait of Hormuz crisis · Fortune and TFTC, on 2026 oil and food price data · the World Economic Forum and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on Syria's wheat collapse · UNICEF and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, on Sudan · the World Health Organization and the IPC, on Gaza. Full citations are in the accompanying written report. This dashboard reflects public research available as of August 2026 and presents conflict-related trade and food security data as a factual synthesis, not a political argument about the causes or merits of any conflict described.
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