India, May 11 -- A new analysis has found that geopolitical turmoil has handed agrifood corporations a windfall, while driving hunger, deforestation, and rural poverty worldwide.

Global food corporations have used the cover of geopolitical disruption to squeeze higher profits from consumers by raising prices, consolidate market power, and push smaller competitors to the wall, according to a new report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).

The report, The New Geopolitics of Food, documents how trade wars, military conflicts, and the breakdown of international institutions have not simply raised costs, they have created opportunities for dominant firms to widen their margins at the expense of the p...