Even before the war began, food prices rose to historic highs amid climate change, conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and speculation in global markets.
Matthias Mogge, secretary general of the German humanitarian organization Welthungerhilfe, warns that Russia’s war against Ukraine will lead to world hunger. He told the publications of the group Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) on 15 May.
Countries like Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan, Lebanon and many others are highly dependent on Russian and Ukrainian exports, whether directly or indirectly, Mogge said.
“Now these countries are not accepting ordered volumes or being forced to pay more for them,” he said.
Even before the war began, food prices rose to historic highs amid climate change, conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and speculation in global markets, Mogge added.
Recall that since occupying parts of the Kherson, Zaporozhye and Luhansk regions in 2022, Russian troops have obtained approximately 500 thousand tons of grain from local farmers and exported to the Russian Federation. This is the third part of all stocks in these territories, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
In total, at the beginning of a massive war, 20 million tons of unsold grain remained in Ukrainian warehouses. Of these, 1.5 million tons – in the territories of southern and eastern Ukraine were temporarily taken by Russia, half a million of which were taken out of the country.
Earlier, Ukraine proposed a solution to the food crisis.
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Source: korrespondent
