Families in China face flooding 'not seen in 2,000 years'

Floods = damaged crops = lower supply per static demand = higher food prices.

Flood-hit families across southern China are facing a catastrophe not seen in millennia as a month of heavy rain continues, warns Plan International. Ten provinces are caught up in the escalating crisis with hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed and huge swathes of farmland swamped.

Source: alertnet.org