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Emergency Grain Stockpiling Highlights World’s Food Worries

Sacks of wheat grain at a wholesale market in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, April, 2024.

Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg

Norway is building a grain stockpile to prepare for a potential crisis.

To help shield the country from any trade disruptions or harvest failures, up to 82,500 tons of state-owned grains will be stored by private companies. The government plans to have enough milling wheat to last three months by 2029.