The other oil crisis: Crop failures leading to sharp increase in price of cooking oil

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UK vegetable oil harvest could be cut in half, while olive oil prices have hit record levels as climate impacts bite

Cooking oil prices are set to hit record levels this year, as climate impacts result in reduced yields from UK oilseed rape fields and olive oil prices remain at historically high levels. That is the...

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