This, in turn, inevitably means bigger grocery bills for consumers, and greater hardship for the millions in countries where food shortages are a matter of life and death.
Pig prices have also been hit by rising feed costs, and the shortage has been compounded by a fall in the number of pigs being raised, which started earlier last year when prices were relatively low.
Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
The results will be released when European markets are closed, giving banks that fail the test time to raise funds to fill their capital shortfall before markets re-open.
Among other benefits, this allows her to freeze the development of an embryo during times of drought and food shortage until the offspring in the pouch is able to leave.
While more people are living longer and healthier lives, gaps are widening between the rich and the poor in some nations and tens of millions of people are vulnerable to food and water shortages.
So much media attention has been devoted to revealing them that I'm not even going to bother retelling stories of bad traffic, illogical rules, and no food.
WHO has also helped re-establish activities of the blood bank at Goma's main hospital, where staffing shortages and insecurity had hampered its operations.