Food Security

Norway will spend $6 million per year stocking up on grain as the pandemic, war, & climate have made it necessary, govt says.

The fact farmers haven’t been able to tend their land in warzones for a year and a half blamed for the slow progress of the counteroffensive.

Invasion causing food crisis that drives developing world migrants to Europe, so give Kyiv more weapons to end the conflict, they say.

There is a “realistic possibility” Russia will deploy a task force to intercept civilian ships as part of a blockade, UK intelligence says. 

Ukraine, once the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its farming sector to recover after the war with Russia.

Fields across southern Ukraine could be turned into “deserts” due to massive flooding caused by the destruction of Kakhovka dam, the country’s agricultural ministry has warned.

Warning of a new threat to global food security, the U.N. said Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain.

A glut of Ukrainian grain is depressing commodity prices. Some have banned imports to protect their own farmers, but the EU is outraged.

LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

Placing a moratorium on foreign land purchases and Chinese companies’ efforts to buy up U.S. farmland, “should be bipartisan,” she said.

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is proposing a foreign land purchase moratorium to protect U.S. food security and stabilize housing prices.

Farmers are to be offered even more money by the government to adopt green agenda policies, the British government’s food department has announced.

Cofigeo, a group which owns several food companies in France, has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs. 

Swedish grocers are sounding the alarm over a recent surge in food thefts across the country, particularly meat products. 

A federation of French supermarket chains has warned of significant waste of fresh products in the event of possible power cuts in the country this winter, with those in rural areas much more likely to face outages.

The G20 member nations published an epic 10,000-word statement on Wednesday at the conclusion of their annual summit stating that “most” members “strongly condemned” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and opposing sanctions on food and fertilizer products.

Food prices in Germany have spiked by just under 40 per cent over last year, with potatoes spiking by as much as 70 per cent in 12 months.

Elected representatives in the Netherlands have grilled the country’s government over exactly how many farms will be forced to close to satisfy the EU’s Great Reset green agenda.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has expressed dismay that Brexit has temporarily delayed efforts to normalise the consumption of bugs to achieve “net zero”.

(AFP) – Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.

(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

Annual inflation in Turkey soared to nearly 80%, official data shows, with food, housing and energy prices hitting consumers hard.

The first ship set off under an UN-Turkey deal that will release Ukrainian crops to foreign markets and ease a growing hunger crisis.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets.

(AFP) – Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odessa Saturday, officials said, in an attack Kyiv described as a “spit in the face” of a deal signed by the warring neighbours a day earlier to resume grain exports blocked by the conflict.

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the U.N. clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of grain.

The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.

MAASLAND, Netherlands (AP) – Bales of hay lie burning along Dutch highways. Supermarket shelves stand empty because distribution centres are blocked by farmers. Then, at dusk, a police officer pulls his pistol and shoots at a tractor.

Gov. Kristi Noem warned of China’s procurement of U.S.-based food production assets on Friday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.

Farmers protesting plans to reduce emissions that could put many out of business have continued blocking supermarket distribution centres.

Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions protested with tractors, the latest actions in a summer of discontent.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada are reportedly blocking a British plan to fight food shortages and inflation by cutting back on biofuels in favour of edible crops, claiming it endangers their “net zero” ambitions.  

With Ukraine’s seaports blockaded, neighboring Romania has emerged as a main conduit for the war-torn country´s grain exports.

The government of Turkey recently expressed a desire to serve as a “facilitator” of a proposed export process between Istanbul, Moscow, and Kyiv that would see grains, fertilizer, and sunflower oil shipped out of Ukraine and Russia in the coming weeks, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka’s socialist government announced plans on Monday to create a private agriculture sector to help alleviate famine amid a national financial crisis that has caused food shortages since March, Sri Lanka’s News First website reported.

A source inside the Indian government said on Monday that several desperate foreign countries are pleading with India to supply over 1.5 million tons of wheat, to compensate for shortfalls from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other factors.