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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed the West last week to lift sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame from Russia to the West.
Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has warned that Italy may face a surge of new illegal migrant arrivals as a food crisis looms due to a lack of grain shipments from Ukraine.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine should remove sea mines from areas near its ports to allow safe shipping.
Officials in socialist Sri Lanka boasted on Thursday of having arrested 137 people for “hoarding” gasoline, diesel, and kerosene as the government struggles to purchase sufficient supplies or distribute the little it has efficiently — a crisis worsened by severe shortages of medicine and basic items like powdered milk.
The Taliban terrorist organization announced a ban on exporting wheat out of Afghanistan on Thursday in response to concerns that the country soon face critical food shortages.
Massive flocks of the red-billed quelea bird — a notorious African crop pest — have decimated grain harvests across farms in western Zimbabwe in recent weeks, causing fears of a local food shortage in the near future, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported Monday.
India’s Directorate-General of Foreign Trade banned wheat exports on Friday, causing market prices to skyrocket around the world and prompting expressions of grave concern from humanitarian groups
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned that shortages of Ukrainian and Russian grain caused by the war and associated Russo-Western sanctions class will likely cause famine and new migration waves.
Afghan news outlets Khaama Press and Ariana News reported on Thursday that an estimated 97 percent of citizens in the country are currently suffering the effects of food shortages, citing the United Nations.
Inflation in Turkey soared to nearly 70% in April, as prices eat away at earnings and put even basic necessities out of reach for many.
Crucial grain from Ukraine isnt being exported, a U.N. director warns, saying there are millions of tons of grain “just sitting there”.
After weeks of claims of deliberate sabotage of Ukraine’s food infrastructure, Kyiv has published images claiming a Russian attack on grain.
Grain production in Ukraine is likely to see around a 20 per cent fall, prompting inflation and global food security concerns from the UK Ministry of Defence.
The president of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa admitted in remarks on Monday that his controversial decision to ban the use of chemical fertilizers was a “mistake,” contributing to the nation’s worst economic crisis in its history.
After weeks of insisting China has no serious concerns about food security despite coronavirus lockdowns and the Russia-Ukraine war, state media on Tuesday tacitly admitted farmers will need to make extraordinary efforts to avert a crisis.
The IMF has become the most recent global body to release a warning regarding forthcoming global food shortages, saying that vulnerable nations are at risk of civil unrest amid supply issues.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that India is ready to fill the food supply gap caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine and “feed the world” — but is waiting on approval for this effort from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Times of India reported.
As the global food crisis worsens thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, wholesale prices in Germany have spiked, seeing their greatest yearly rise in 60 years.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed looming fears of a food crisis on Sunday during a trip to the southern island of Hainan.
As the entire world faces into a period of serious food instability, Russian armed forces have been actively targetting wheat stocks in Ukraine for destruction, an EU official has claimed.
Dairy farmers the latest in Euro agri-sector to report impending crisis as soaring costs of energy and animal feed slash margins and profits.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare reliance on Vladimir Putin’s oil and gas exports but the damage does not stop there. In the invaded country itself, the “breadbasket of Europe,” farming operations have virtually shut down which could drive global food shortages.
Climate laws are having a negative knock-on effect on farming as businesses outbid locals for land in hopes of generating carbon credits.
ROME (AP) – The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month due to fallout from the war in Ukraine.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger and two top European Union officials are in Kyiv looking to shore up the bloc’s support for war-torn Ukraine.
Supplies of potato chips and various types of confectionery are now under threat as a result of disrupted export caused by sanctions and the Ukraine War.
German supermarkets are raising prices by as much as 50% on some goods such as cooking oils, meat, and cheese due to the war in Ukraine.
The China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association warned on Friday that coronavirus lockdowns could jeopardize the spring corn and soybean planting season by disrupting the supply of fertilizer to farms in northeastern China.
A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.
Italian inflation rose to 6.7 per cent in March as the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to a surge in energy prices, marking the highest inflation the country has seen since July of 1991.
The socialist government of Spain said that supermarkets will be allowed to ration as a part of its “Response Plan” to the war in Ukraine.
Germany is experiencing the highest level of inflation since the country was reunified in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Tuesday accused Russia of jeopardizing global food security by blocking grain exports from Ukraine.
The growing cost of living crisis in Britain has seen grocery price inflation hit its highest level in ten years.
BEIRUT (AP) – Layal Aswad was already exhausted by Lebanon’s devastating two-year economic collapse. Now, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends food and energy prices soaring even further, she finds herself struggling to put food on the table for her family of four.
