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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats

Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.

© Lisi Niesner/Reuters

A combine harvester threshing wheat in a field in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month. Yields in the country are down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat.
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Books and Bread: Free Grocery Stores in Libraries Tackle Food Insecurity

Customers are able to choose their own groceries, often in private, instead of visiting a food pantry for whatever is available on a given day.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

“You have so many people who have worked their entire lives in the federal government, and then all of a sudden, the rug is pulled from under them,” said Shayla Adams-Stafford, a Prince George’s County Council member who helped bring the store to the community.
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