Global Food Crisis: A global food crisis simmers as war and corona choke commodity supply chains
Synopsis
The global food system has been reeling from the effects of the pandemic and climate change. Now a clutch of factors has disrupted commodity exports across the world, with some of the largest producers of key staples banning exports. This has triggered the steepest price increases since the 2008 financial crisis and is threatening supplies to the world’s hungriest people.
Denise Jia The world is facing a looming food crisis as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe, disrupts exports and planting of new crops in the region, threatening supplies to some of the hungriest people on the planet.However, the conflict is just the latest shock to the global food system, which has already been severely impacted by disruptions to supply chains due to the Covid-19 pandemic and mounting
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