I'm sorry, all I see is a couple of light blips on a dark background. Why is this awesome?

There's a suggestion of causality here - that this is an effect of the global food shortage. Not the case. Rather, the hop shortage is symptomatic of the cyclical capital crises of which the food shortage is another symptom. Hops were overplanted and become cheap; the bottom fell out of the market; farmers stopped planting them because there were more profitable crops; now there is a shortage.