Russia - Ukraine War Creating A Global Food Crisis

 

Politico: ‘We see the storm coming’: U.S. struggles to contain a deepening global food crisis  

Biden officials are scrambling to limit the damage from fast-spreading food shortages sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but they face an array of complex political and logistical challenges. 

As Russian forces refocus the brunt of their military assault on Ukraine’s food-producing southeast, U.S. officials and lawmakers are struggling to help ward off a deepening crisis both inside Ukraine and for fragile economies around the world already reeling from climate disasters and Covid-19. 

Russia’s military is pushing further into Ukraine’s wheat fields, which could jeopardize millions of tons of grain set to be harvested in July — threatening sustained shortages in countries across Africa and the Middle East that rely on Ukraine as a major source of their grain and sunflower oil to feed millions of people. 

The crisis has also contributed to sky-rocketing grain prices, which has made it harder for humanitarian organizations like the United Nations’ World Food Program, to respond; the agency says it needs an additional $16 billion to feed a record 137 million people for the rest of the year.  

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Update #1: How the War in Ukraine is Creating a Global Food Crisis (New York Times)  

Update #2: How war in Ukraine is affecting food supply in Africa and the Middle East (The Guardian)  

WNU Editor: Here is the data on how the Russia - Ukraine war is creating a global food crisis .... How could the war in Ukraine impact global food supplies? (Our World Date).