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Global food prices in 2022 hit record high amid drought, war

ROME: According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, global prices for food commodities such as grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels...
WTO warns of 'real' recession risk in some major economies

WTO warns of ‘real’ recession risk in some major economies

Indonesia's NUSA DUA: The crisis in Ukraine, rising food and gasoline prices, and surging inflation have all contributed to a cloudy view of the...
Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions

Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions

ROME ITALY: Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels. Everlast month largely because of Russia’s war in Ukraine...
Biden pledges new Ukraine aid warns Russia on chemical weapons

Biden pledges new Ukraine aid warns Russia on chemical weapons.

BRUSSELS Belgium: President Joe Biden and Western allies pledged new sanctions and humanitarian aid. In response to Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine. But their...
Ukraine says 300 died in theater attack, hunger grips cities

Ukraine reports 300 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater

KYIV, Ukraine: About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week on a Mariupol theater that was being used as a shelter....
‘No mercy’: Mariupol bombing compared to Nazi war crimes

‘No mercy’: Mariupol bombing compared to Nazi war crimes.

MEDYKA, Poland: The president of Poland compared Russia’s attacks on Ukraine to Nazi forces during World War II. Saying that besieged Mariupol looks like...
Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers are in no rush to pivot.

Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers are in no rush to pivot.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Worldwide, farmers like are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring. As the war...
ROME: U.N. food agency warned that Poorer countries in northern Africa, Asia, and the Middle East risk suffering significant food insecurity because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The conflict is poised to drive up already soaring food prices in much of the world. Ukraine and Russia, account for one-third of global grain exports. With the conflict’s intensity “the likely disruptions to agricultural activities of these two major exporters of staple commodities could seriously escalate food insecurity globally. When international food and input prices are already high and vulnerable,” said Qu Dongyu, director-general of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization. The U.N. agency, known as FAO, also noted that Russia is the lead producer of fertilizer, and a key fertilizer component — urea — has jumped more than threefold in price in the last 12 months. The United States, Argentina, and other wheat-producing nations are likely to limit exports as governments seek to ensure domestic supply, he said. Adding to the pressure, countries that depend on Russian and Ukrainian wheat are likely to increase imports. Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iran buy 60% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine. Also heavily reliant are Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, and Pakistan. In Libya, where civil war has ground on for years, the latest price increases for food staples have people worried. The U.N. agency said its simulations suggest that “the global number of undernourished people could increase by 8 to 13 million” in 2022-2023. Particularly in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa. With shortfalls in grain and sunflower seed exports by Ukraine and Russia, “worryingly, the resulting global supply gap could push up international food and feed prices by 8 to 22% above their already elevated levels,” the FAO’s report warned. The COVID-19 pandemic already had a major impact on global food security. Last year, global prices of wheat and barley rose 31%, and rapeseed and sunflower oil prices jumped by more than 60%. Wheat prices have surged more than 50% since a week before the invasion.

War in Ukraine to hurt poor nations importing grain: UN warned.

ROME: U.N. food agency warned that Poorer countries in northern Africa, Asia, and the Middle East risk suffering significant food insecurity because of Russia’s...
Russia-Ukraine war in the world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply.

Russia-Ukraine war in the world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply.

BARCELONA, Spain: The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Who...
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