By Amanda Leland Millions around the globe, already facing food shortages and an escalating hunger crisis, are being hit with a new problem: skyrocketing prices and shortages of vegetable oils used in everyday cooking. In recent months, we have seen: Dramatic declines in soybean oil production due to historic droughts across South America. Canadian farmers shifting away from canola crops also because of droughts. A ban on palm oil exports from Indonesia due to rising domestic prices. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has reduced that country’s huge agricultural exports, including sunflower oil . Cooking oil is something almost all of us use every day to feed our families, and many of us take it for granted. But the rising cost at my local grocery store is nothing compared to the serious consequences for countless people who have far less reliable access to nutritious food than I do.…