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Global food security is already under threat since Russia halted an agreement allowing Ukraine to export wheat and the El Nino weather phenomenon hampers rice production. Now, rice prices are soaring Vietnam s rice export prices, for instance, have reached a 15-year high putting the most vulnerable people in some of the poorest nations at risk.