Food prices at risk as world runs short of workers

Labour woes: An employee holds a package of milk bottles at the Dairy Crest factory in the UK. Cancelled or delayed deliveries have forced some British dairy farmers to dump milk while stores run short. ― Bloomberg

SAO PAOLO: Across the world, a dearth of workers is shaking up food supply chains.

In Vietnam, the army is assisting with the rice harvest. In the United Kingdom, farmers are dumping milk because there are no truckers to collect it.