she s the head of research at the global commodities merchant ed&f man khona laskar hak. always a pleasure having you on the show. and let me start with this because we had seen prices dipping and correct me if i m wrong, but that doesn t seem to be the case anymore. no, that s correct. we ve had a series of events over the last few weeks which have caused prices to suddenly escalate again. price for rice were already rising quite a bit. in fact, we ve reached two year highs lately, and the reason for that is because unusual weather, particularly hot weather in asia, and this has caused crops, particularly rice yields, to suffer. so india, which is worried about domestic food inflation, decided that they would put a ban on rice exports and therefore hope in the hope that their own domestic prices would therefore start to stabilize, irrespective of what happens to global rice prices. so that s definitely an impact on rice. but here in europe, we re seeing an issue with grains because th