Russia will experience a major food crisis

Both global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, threaten to turn the world’s food supply into a global catastrophe. Experts have been warning about this for a long time and the UN is also raising its voice. Addressing the world’s representatives in the UN Security Council, US Secretary of State Blinken emphasized that the world would be hit hard by the food crisis.

“The Russian Federation is falsely claiming that the international community’s sanctions are to blame for the worsening global food crisis. It is not those that are blocking Black Sea ports, destroying food-filled ships and Ukrainian roads and railways, it is Russia.

The supply of food to millions of Ukrainians and millions of others around the world is literally being held hostage by the Russian army, “Blinken said.

“We are really in an unprecedented crisis. Food prices are our number one problem right now, but the biggest problem next year will be food availability. When a country like Ukraine, which grows enough food for 400 million people, falls out of the market, it causes great instability and we see now. “

Prior to Russia’s war, wheat supplies from Russia and Ukraine accounted for almost 30% of world trade, while Ukraine was the world’s fourth largest exporter of corn and the fifth largest exporter of wheat. The United Nations World Food Program, which helps countries struggling with food, bought about half of the wheat it needed each year in Ukraine.

The US media now reports that the US and the UN are exploring new routes for Ukrainian grain exports – north by rail through Belarus to the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania. The United States is even considering lifting the sanctions on Belarus’ potassium fertilizer industry for six months in exchange for the transit of Ukrainian grain through Belarus.

Meanwhile, on Friday, May 20, in Brussels, the agriculture ministers of the European Union member states will also talk about the current situation in the market of agricultural products and foodstuffs. One of the main topics is inflation and food prices.

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