In rice-hungry Indonesia, El Nino-fuelled price hikes spark fears of food insecurity and unrest
Indonesia was self-sufficient in rice in the 1980s before farmland was used to build housing for the booming population, which now stands at more than 270 million people. Despite this, more than 90 per cent of Indonesian families still consume rice every day, providing more than half their daily calories. The Southeast Asian nation’s per … Read more
