Food prices back in focus - will Easter cost you more?

April 3, 202651m 27s

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Show Notes

With the ongoing regional conflict - global food prices are back in focus - with the UN warning fertiliser costs could keep inflation stubbornly high.

While cocoa prices are falling, chocolate prices are still stubbornly high. We'll speak to a local chocolatier about why?

Plus with some exam boards are now cancelling GCSE exams in the UAE, how will grades now be decided?

And, Abu Dhabi's launching a major new biobank - saying it's a shift towards predictive, personalised healthcare. But how will it work? We'll ask the team behind the project

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Topics

food falloutworld’s most important supply routesgrainfertiliseragricultural inputsglobal food security riskdefeat hungerimprove nutrition and food securityAgrifood Economics Division -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationslocal chocolatierCo Chocolatcancellation of international GCSE and A Level exams across the UAEalternative schools assessment methodsDubai Collegefuture of healthcarebiological samples and genetic dataAbu Dhabi Biobank

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