Our food was under threat before Putin invaded Ukraine – now it’s getting worse
2 years, 7 months ago

Our food was under threat before Putin invaded Ukraine – now it’s getting worse

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Last year, the think tank Chatham House warned about the growing risk of simultaneous extreme weather events, wiping out crops in the top four food baskets, rising from 0.1 per cent now to a 50 per cent chance within 20-30 years. But extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are already hitting global food supplies and imposing crippling inflation on millions of people, including in the UK. Martin Frick, director of the World Food Programme in Berlin, told me that the climate crisis was definitely a contributor to this year’s global food cost inflation. He said it was important to note that 60 per cent of the recent food price inflation occurred before Putin invaded Ukraine.

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Food inflation expected to rise due to climate change
9 months, 1 week ago

Food inflation expected to rise due to climate change

China Daily  

By JONATHAN POWELL in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-03-28 09:08 A firefighter battles a wildfire in Mexico this week that is an example of the impact of climate change. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, or PIK, analyzed historical food prices across various food categories and countries globally, looking at the impact of climatic …

How escalating conflict in Ukraine deepens Britain’s food price woes
1 year, 7 months ago

How escalating conflict in Ukraine deepens Britain’s food price woes

The Telegraph  

However, Walton says British shoppers will also feel the impact at the tills as a squeeze on global wheat supplies drives up prices across the board. That might well push back the timeline for a return to more normal food pricing,” he says. It brings one of the most powerful fluctuations in the Earth’s climate system, causing yet more disruption …

World Food Program chief: Somali famine slowed, not avoided
1 year, 11 months ago

World Food Program chief: Somali famine slowed, not avoided

Associated Press  

DAVOS, Switzerland — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia but stressed that “we’re not out of this yet.” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said countries in the Horn of Africa have faced …

UK inflation accelerates to 40-year high as food prices rise
2 years, 2 months ago

UK inflation accelerates to 40-year high as food prices rise

Associated Press  

LONDON — British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation’s poorest residents. “In today’s society, I find that completely unacceptable.” Hunt this week told the House of Commons that the government would …

Here’s how to stop Putin and prevent a global food crisis
2 years, 3 months ago

Here’s how to stop Putin and prevent a global food crisis

Al Jazeera  

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated how international efforts to counter Russia are severely hamstrung by an uncomfortable reality: Isolating the Kremlin comes with a cost in the form of massive risks to global food security. Moscow is trying to leverage this mounting crisis as a way around the economic pressure designed to compel it to end its assault on …

UK food prices rise at fastest rate since global financial crash
2 years, 4 months ago

UK food prices rise at fastest rate since global financial crash

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The price of …

The global threat to our food security
2 years, 4 months ago

The global threat to our food security

Live Mint  

Recent data on inflation suggests a softening of the trend of rising inflation in retail prices. While overall domestic food inflation has moderated, both rice and wheat prices have been showing an upward trend. Unproven, unregulated, facial recognition tech creeping in Why we must welcome Coldplay's climate play Hero Electric in talks to raise $250 million How Nifty's dynamic with …

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis
2 years, 5 months ago

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis

Al Jazeera  

Millions of lives are at stake and the world’s most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time. Even before the war, hunger and malnutrition were on the rise globally, with an unacceptable 823 million people going hungry in 2021 according to the recent edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report by five United …

How the Ukraine invasion, fertiliser and fuel crises and climate change combine to create a world hunger problem
2 years, 5 months ago

How the Ukraine invasion, fertiliser and fuel crises and climate change combine to create a world hunger problem

ABC  

The ripple effects of concurrent crises are leading the world on a path to crushing hunger — and the possibility of more war. "Wheat is a staple product in the diets of so many," Rabobank grains analyst Cheryl Kalisch Gordon says, "20 per cent of the world's calories come from wheat and in some parts of Africa and the Middle …

Putin’s ‘food terrorism’ in Ukraine war leaves millions facing famine in Africa
2 years, 5 months ago

Putin’s ‘food terrorism’ in Ukraine war leaves millions facing famine in Africa

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Vladimir Putin’s forces are using “food terrorism” as a weapon …

Opinion: The ‘cheap food’ era could soon be over. Here’s what comes next
2 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: The ‘cheap food’ era could soon be over. Here’s what comes next

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Tim Benton is Director of the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Adding to the crisis, Russia’s deliberate blockade of Odesa’s ports is preventing the grain harvested last year being shipped from Ukraine to import-dependent countries like Egypt, Libya and Somalia – all now in desperate need. By impeding the flow of grain from …

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage
2 years, 6 months ago

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. “This year’s food access issues could become next year’s global food shortage,” he said. “No country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe.” Guterres said U.N. negotiators were working …

EXPLAINER: How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?

Associated Press  

LONDON — Russian hostilities in Ukraine are 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. World food prices were already climbing, and the war made things worse, preventing some 20 million tons of Ukrainian grain from getting to the Middle …

How did the Russia-Ukraine war trigger a global food crisis?
2 years, 6 months ago

How did the Russia-Ukraine war trigger a global food crisis?

Al Jazeera  

Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley and more than 70 percent of its sunflower oil. Russia’s war in Ukraine 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. It really has added an …

How does the war in Ukraine impact food supply?
2 years, 6 months ago

How does the war in Ukraine impact food supply?

ABC  

The war in Ukraine is exacerbating an already alarming global food crisis, experts warn. David Beasley, the head of WFP, has called Russia's failure to open the ports in Ukraine to grain and agricultural exports "a declaration of war on global food security." The world is already experiencing "food shocks" – the loss of food supply due to climate events …

UN report: Ukraine war is increasing suffering of millions
2 years, 7 months ago

UN report: Ukraine war is increasing suffering of millions

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are increasing the suffering of millions of people by escalating food and energy prices and worsening a financial crisis, coming on top of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, a U.N. report said Wednesday. Global Crisis Response Group said the war “has exacerbated a global cost-of-living …

The Ukraine war and the global food crisis
2 years, 7 months ago

The Ukraine war and the global food crisis

The Hindu  

The story so far: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions on its economy have sent global food prices soaring, threatening to push millions of people, especially those in low-income countries, into starvation. Ukraine and its allies in the West have accused Russia of weaponising food, saying that its blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is the primary reason …

Ukraine war ‘aggravating’ existing global food crisis, UN warns
2 years, 7 months ago

Ukraine war ‘aggravating’ existing global food crisis, UN warns

Al Jazeera  

‘Food is available,’ Luca Russo, the FAO’s lead analyst for food crises, tells Al Jazeera. As the cost of food soars around the world, the United Nations warns that the war in Ukraine risks aggravating inflating prices and causing a full-on global food crisis. Luca Russo, the FAO’s lead analyst for food crises, told Al Jazeera that as Russia’s invasion …

100 Days of War: Amid Russia-Ukraine war, food security crisis only set to worsen
2 years, 7 months ago

100 Days of War: Amid Russia-Ukraine war, food security crisis only set to worsen

India Today  

Of the three food items — wheat, corn, and rice — which account for nearly 40 per cent of the world’s calorie intake, the production of two is set to fall slightly in 2022. While fall is expected to be marginal, the growing unaffordability of commonly used food items has pushed a large section of the population to the brink …

Far from Ukraine, food prices and hunger rise in Africa because of the war
2 years, 7 months ago

Far from Ukraine, food prices and hunger rise in Africa because of the war

LA Times  

It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia’s capital. Conflict, the climate crisis, COVID-19 and surging food and fuel costs have created a perfect storm — and now we’ve got the war in …

Millions ‘marching to starvation’ as Putin unleashes global food catastrophe
2 years, 7 months ago

Millions ‘marching to starvation’ as Putin unleashes global food catastrophe

The Telegraph  

Hundreds of millions of people are "marching to starvation" after Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine unleashed the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, the head of the UN’s World Food Programme has warned. David Beasley condemned Russia for “a declaration of war on global food security” after it blocked Ukrainian grain exports, and said that 325m people are …

Risk of unprecedented global wave of hunger as Ukraine food harvests worse than feared
2 years, 7 months ago

Risk of unprecedented global wave of hunger as Ukraine food harvests worse than feared

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The predictions come as the UN warned that the …

UK ‘unprepared’ for soaring food prices and shortages from Ukraine war
2 years, 7 months ago

UK ‘unprepared’ for soaring food prices and shortages from Ukraine war

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ian Wright has …

US accuses Russia of weaponizing food in Ukraine war
2 years, 7 months ago

US accuses Russia of weaponizing food in Ukraine war

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia on Thursday of weaponizing food and holding grain for millions of people around the world hostage to help accomplish what its invasion of Ukraine has not -- “to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people.” He told a U.N. Security Council meeting called by the United States that the …

Skyrocketing grain prices to worsen global food insecurity, Rabobank warns
2 years, 7 months ago

Skyrocketing grain prices to worsen global food insecurity, Rabobank warns

ABC  

Russia's war over Ukraine will push grain and food prices up for at least a year, Rabobank has warned, with dire outcomes for the world's hungriest nations. Key points: Rabobank has warned higher grain prices will be felt across the world well beyond this year The real impact of Ukraine's smaller grain exports would be felt after its summer harvest …

War-fueled food inflation will cause social unrest, UN official says
2 years, 7 months ago

War-fueled food inflation will cause social unrest, UN official says

CNN  

New York CNN Business — A perfect storm of war, extreme weather and Covid-19 will drive global food prices to levels that will cause social unrest in some parts of the world, according to David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme. “If we’re not there with a safety net program, then the political extremists or whatever the …

Food prices to remain high? How climate change, war are biting us badly
2 years, 8 months ago

Food prices to remain high? How climate change, war are biting us badly

India Today  

Food prices around the world, including in India, skyrocketed this year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Wheat prices hit a 14-year peak in March, and maize prices reached the highest ever recorded, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems said in a report released last week. RISK TO GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY Climate change, widespread poverty and conflicts are …

How the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID and climate change are fuelling a growing global food crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

How the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID and climate change are fuelling a growing global food crisis

ABC  

The farmers sleep fully clothed so they are ready to run for shelter. The report said nearly 193 million people in 53 countries and territories faced "crisis", "emergency" or "catastrophic" levels of food security in 2021 — the highest since the report began gathering data in 2016. "We already had record-high food prices, even in January, that was basically the …

US to spotlight war-caused food insecurity at 2 UN events
2 years, 8 months ago

US to spotlight war-caused food insecurity at 2 UN events

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The United States said Tuesday it will put a spotlight on the impact of the war in Ukraine and other conflicts on the diminishing availability of food and rising prices at two U.N. events later this month, an issue which has sparked fears of increasing hunger and starvation in many countries. The United States holds the rotating …

World facing ‘human catastrophe’ food crisis from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says World Bank
2 years, 8 months ago

World facing ‘human catastrophe’ food crisis from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says World Bank

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The World Bank has warned …

Will the war in Ukraine worsen global food shortages?
2 years, 8 months ago

Will the war in Ukraine worsen global food shortages?

Al Jazeera  

The UN is warning of a ‘perfect storm’ of crises for developing countries as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the flow of food, fuel and money around the world. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the flow of food, fuel and money around the world. Food prices are up 34 percent compared with last year, the highest levels ever …

Russia's attack on Ukraine may burn a hole in your pocket too, daily items' prices set to rise
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia's attack on Ukraine may burn a hole in your pocket too, daily items' prices set to rise

India Today  

Food prices are surging globally, including in India, as the war in Ukraine blocks crop supplies to push inflationary pressure on the consumer pocket. Taking cues from the global situation, the Reserve Bank of India today raised the inflation forecast for the current fiscal year by 120 basis points to 5.7 per cent. After easing to 4.3 per cent in …

Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions
2 years, 9 months ago

Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions

Associated Press  

ROME — Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is causing, threatening millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere with hunger and malnourishment, the United Nations said Friday. “There is, of course, a massive supply …

Ukraine war disruptions send food prices to their highest ever
2 years, 9 months ago

Ukraine war disruptions send food prices to their highest ever

Al Jazeera  

World food prices hit an all-time high in March following Russia’s invasion of agricultural powerhouse Ukraine, a United Nations agency said on Friday, adding to concerns about the risk of hunger around the world. Russia and Ukraine, whose vast grain-growing regions are among the world’s main breadbaskets, account for a huge share of the globe’s exports in several major commodities, …

Russia Ukraine War: International food prices soar to record high levels after massive supply disruptions
2 years, 9 months ago

Russia Ukraine War: International food prices soar to record high levels after massive supply disruptions

India TV News  

Highlights Prices of grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month UN FAO said the war was largely responsible for the 17.1% rise in grains Russia and Ukraine together account for around 30% and 20% of global wheat and corn exports Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month …

UN food chief: Ukraine war’s food crisis is worst since WWII
2 years, 9 months ago

UN food chief: Ukraine war’s food crisis is worst since WWII

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. food chief warned Tuesday the war in Ukraine has created “a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe” and will have a global impact “beyond anything we’ve seen since World War II” because many of the Ukrainian farmers who produce a significant amount of the world’s wheat are now fighting Russians. He pointed to war-torn Yemen …

AfDB president: Ukraine war could trigger a food crisis in Africa
2 years, 9 months ago

AfDB president: Ukraine war could trigger a food crisis in Africa

Al Jazeera  

The AfDB chief believes the Russia-Ukraine war will have a ripple effect on food security and energy supply. Effect of Ukraine war on Africa Now, in his current role as the president of the African Development Bank, the continent’s largest multilateral lender, Adesina is trying to avert a food crisis on a larger scale. But perhaps just as important, commodity …

Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger: Economic pain from Russia’s war is getting real
2 years, 9 months ago

Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger: Economic pain from Russia’s war is getting real

CNN  

New York CNN Business — As Russian soldiers bear down on Ukraine, increasingly desperate Ukrainians are running out of food and medicine. Inside Ukraine, some towns have less than a four days’ worth of food, the aid agency Mercy Corps said Tuesday, warning that the humanitarian system in the country “is entirely broken down.” At least 70% of the population …

Food supply chains are ‘falling apart’ in Ukraine, UN warns
2 years, 9 months ago

Food supply chains are ‘falling apart’ in Ukraine, UN warns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Food supply chains in Ukraine …

World Food Programme says food supply chains 'falling apart' in Ukraine
2 years, 9 months ago

World Food Programme says food supply chains 'falling apart' in Ukraine

The Hindu  

A World Food Programme official said on Friday that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with a portion of infrastructure destroyed and many grocery stores and warehouses empty. Movements of goods have slowed down due to insecurity and the reluctance of drivers," Jakob Kern, WFP Emergency Coordinator for the Ukraine crisis, told a Geneva press briefing by videolink from …

War in Ukraine will affect food prices – the real question is how badly
2 years, 9 months ago

War in Ukraine will affect food prices – the real question is how badly

The Independent  

The focus is shifting from energy to food. Quite aside from what happens in Russia, there will not be much planting of wheat in Ukraine this spring, so the question will be whether North America, France and other countries can increase production. The world’s largest importer of wheat is Egypt, and since it gets some 70 per cent of that …

After pandemic, war in Ukraine new threat to food security
2 years, 9 months ago

After pandemic, war in Ukraine new threat to food security

India Today  

The crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilizers and energy, presents new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic, a U.N. official said Thursday. “We weren’t going well even before the pandemic, the hunger was rising slowly and then the pandemic hit,” said Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio, head of …

After pandemic, war in Ukraine new threat to food security
2 years, 9 months ago

After pandemic, war in Ukraine new threat to food security

Associated Press  

DHAKA, Bangladesh — The crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilizers and energy, presents new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic, a U.N. official said Thursday. “We weren’t going well even before the pandemic, the hunger was rising slowly and then the pandemic hit,” said Gabriel Ferrero de …

Ukraine-Russia war poses new threat to global food security
2 years, 10 months ago

Ukraine-Russia war poses new threat to global food security

Al Jazeera  

Russia and Ukraine combine for nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley exports. The crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilisers and energy, presents new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic, a United Nations official said Thursday. “We weren’t going well even before the pandemic, the …

Surging prices and wheat shortages: How the invasion of Ukraine is impacting global food supplies
2 years, 10 months ago

Surging prices and wheat shortages: How the invasion of Ukraine is impacting global food supplies

Salon  

As the world closely watches the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one thing is certain as we wonder what happens next. Thanks to new agricultural supply chain disruptions compounded with climate change related drought and low crop yields, consumers are left bracing for what could be unprecedented levels of global food insecurity. RELATED: Ukrainian President Zelensky begs Biden to help In …

Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply to Europe, Africa, Asia
2 years, 10 months ago

Russian war in world's 'breadbasket' threatens food supply to Europe, Africa, Asia

Firstpost  

If the war is prolonged, countries that rely on affordable wheat exports from Ukraine could face shortages starting in July, International Grains Council director Arnaud Petit said The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea …

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions
2 years, 10 months ago

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions

NPR  

Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions Enlarge this image toggle caption Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg via Getty Images Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg via Getty Images Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't only jeopardizing the lives of Ukraine's citizens. Here are six takeaways: 1) The timing challenge While a military conflict in Ukraine was always going to have some …

Op-Ed: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should not cause a hunger crisis
2 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should not cause a hunger crisis

LA Times  

Ukraine is sometimes called the “breadbasket of Europe.” Even its yellow-and-blue flag connotes a flat wheat field beneath an azure sky. But lost in the discussion is what a wider conflict might do to global food prices amid a disruption to the supply chain of grains from Europe’s breadbasket. Countries that rely most heavily on wheat imports from Russia and …

UK food bills will soar if Russia invades Ukraine, experts warn
2 years, 11 months ago

UK food bills will soar if Russia invades Ukraine, experts warn

The Telegraph  

A Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to cause UK grocery bills to rocket further as experts warn conflict and sanctions would severely disrupt the supply of grains from the “breadbasket of Europe”. Analysts at Rabobank warned that an invasion could cause wheat prices to double and impact half of Ukrainian grains production, putting more pressure on UK food prices as …

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