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A farmer checks on coffee plants destroyed by frost during extremely low temperatures near Caconde, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Extreme weather is slamming crops across the globe, bringing with it the threat of further food inflation at a time costs are already hovering near the highest in a decade and hunger is on the rise. Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fire, frost and drought are ravaging the country that makes breakfast for the world

By Peter Millard, Fabiana Batista, and others

Coffee beans are dried in the sun on a farm in Guaxupe, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The severe drought in agricultural powerhouse Brazil is shaking up the world’s crop markets again, this time because farmers in the top exporting country are finding they can’t meet sales agreements made months ago. Photographer: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg

Coffee prices surge as freezing temperatures destroy Brazil’s crops

By Marvin G. Perez, Fabiana Batista, and others

A person walks outside the JBS Beef Production Facility in Greeley, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. A cyberattack on JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, has forced the shutdown of some of the largest slaughterhouses globally, and there are signs that the closures are spreading. Photographer: Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg

The world’s largest meat producer is raising wages and processing capacity at its U.S. beef plants

By Fabiana Batista and Bloomberg

A worker walks past a mural outside the JBS SA pork processing plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, June 5, 2020. JBS USA and three other meat processors were accused in Minneapolis federal court of conspiring to inflate the price of beef through an industrywide scheme that’s coming to light thanks to federal investigations prompted in part by shortages during the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The latest cyber attack victim is the world’s largest meat supplier

By Fabiana Batista, Sybilla Gross, and others

Packages of “Impossible Burger” and “Beyond Meat” sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in New York City. – Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and sausages, revived by start-ups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger, are enjoying a certain enthusiasm that meat giants also want to enjoy. Since this summer, the world leader in the JBS sector has been marketing a soy burger in Brazil that includes beetroot, garlic and onions, with a look similar to a rare minced steak. In the US, the largest meat producer Tyson Foods launched a new line of products in June based on plants or mixing meat and vegetables. Its competitors Hormel Foods, Perdue Farms or Smithfield, have similar initiatives. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Meat giant Tyson Foods enters the competitive plant-based market again—this time with a line of vegan meat products

By Michael Hirtzer, Deena Shanker, and others

19 March 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Emmendingen: Toilet paper and handkerchiefs are lying on the shelves and on the sales floor of the fashion house Blum-Jundt. The owners of the Blum-Jundt fashion store have placed large quantities of toilet paper, pasta and disinfectant items on their sales floor in order to be considered a discounter and thus draw attention to the sale of, for example, textiles by discounters or drugstores during the Corona Lockdown. Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa (Photo by Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Brace yourself—the globe faces another epic toilet paper crisis

By Fabiana Batista and Bloomberg

A worker separates coffee cherries during harvest at a plantation in Guaxupe, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Friday, June 16, 2017.

Coffee prices could surge soon as La Nina heat scorches world’s largest crop supply

By Fabiana Batista, Tatiana Freitas, and others