Global food crisis emerging due to Russia-Ukraine war. Russia-Ukraine War may result in a global food-crises in coming days since nearly one third of the world’s wheat and barley and 70% of sunflower oil is exported by Russia and Ukraine.
Russia–Ukraine War is preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world” and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger, and political instability in developing countries.
Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70 percent of its sunflower oil and are big suppliers of corn.
Russia is the top global fertiliser producer as well and the war may result in global food crisis emerging in coming months. Global food crisis emerging due to Russia-Ukraine war
World food prices were already climbing, and the war has made things worse, preventing some 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain from getting to the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia.
Weeks of negotiations on safe corridors to get grain out of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports have made little progress, with urgency rising as the summer harvest season arrives.
“This needs to happen in the next couple of months [or] it’s going to be horrific,” said Anna Nagurney, who studies crisis management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is on the board of the Kyiv School of Economics.
NATO has also warrened Russia with the ultimate consequences of this war not only in Europe but also in the global perspective.
The global food crisis emerging due to Russia-Ukraine war is also causing a serious hike in prices of gasoline products in all over the world.
Global food crisis is on the verge due to Russia-Ukraine war and it will become more serious with the passage of time if the war gets prolonged.
