Global food prices rise after Russia ends Ukraine grain deal and India restricts rice exports

A man carries a sack of wheat at a World Food Program (WFP) warehouse, at a camp for people displaced by drought, in the town of Gode, Somali Region, Ethiopia, April 26, 2022. Photo by Tiksa Negeri/REUTERS

LONDON (AP) — Global prices for food commodities like rice and vegetable oil have risen for the first time in months after Russia pulled out of a wartime agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to the world, and India restricted some of its rice exports, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said…