whatever it takes believe i'm following with w. fire made for mines. ah, ukraine 2022 ah . wheat fields up in flames. missiles strikes are targeting farms and we've done give to y'all is do is put it in a little bit. thanks. we're on the street shooting at our store house. we were a deliberate target. when the with harvesting machines have been destroyed, freight ships carrying grain needed and africa are kept waiting in the ports. fighting is hindering fear, transports in spice, of the great deal. fears of famine and civil unrest growing ah off, what's really good at it. we will go and strike lavoy medicine. if prices don't go down, we'll take to the streets and get people might get killed by good luck, the fight for several months now, we've been observing this development and trying to understand it. is there a strategy? is russia also weaponized in cramps to wage its war against ukraine? ah, ah, it's june 2022 and we are in the south of ukraine, just a few kilometers from the front line. for the nearby black see ports of odessa and make a live are being attacked on a daily basis. in this region, grain is grown on a large scale and exported all over the world. at least it was before the war. nadia ivanov us farm is one of many that has been destroyed. she wants to harvest her wheat this year, in spite of the destruction to put it on the sogba, they shot at all our farming equipment. look at the bullet holes here. the shedding could resume any tolling even the roof is riddled with bullet holes, shovels and mirrors. you can see here how heavy the shelling was. good and remember, every one knows this is the most dangerous own car washes armour. we are in the so called red zone. no one comes here of their own free will for the farm is this means few spare parts and 0 state aid. nadia still needs to feed her family. her husband and 3 children all work on the farm. this way the grain would normally be cleaned, birth shipper, chip, dark color, blue forest reaction was fear, grief and bitterness. lucia here cor felt a desperate loss, but we don't know how much longer it will go on over jemma. but jack, we are a little calmer now just thrush q 50 every day. life is tough. even the trait is the void, the area, but not he has still gets an inquiry for sunflower seeds. never been alive over door. i would sell them for $24.00. but never for 8. certainly not for 7. 0, well, you can talk to your boss about it, but i don't agree with this price only. okay. uh huh. umbrella. okay. the riddle. so didn't was to fill the little $195.00 per ton of drug for shift. but i understand that there are additional logistics costs. oh, but it's not the right price. you want them to me. it's not, not yourself. it's just a fraction of the pre roll price for her. the situation is a 3rd ballpark. prices are rising worldwide, fueled by fears of food shortages. she is stuck here with 4000 tons of wheat, and its value is eroding and was a bullet to having it isn't painful here for the rest of the world. and for us with seizure on them off for some it is their food and for us is money for our livelihood, but to carry on working well not yet is not yet know how to keep the business running. until recently, the nearby black c ports had ensured short transport routes and good prices. well, trade is all about shifting large quantities cheaply. but now the ports are under fire. they say in the industry that whoever controls the ports controls expos, professor machine kime is an agricultural economist at the university of bon. he's observing the global effects of the war. no, it's for ions. at some leaps, meters, hunger is being used as a weapons buffer ions at some to sell their withholding food and weapon ising. it also burchesi's on a line. it's not just the grain silos that have been shall go. borne out in vic, russian warships blocking the ports for months have of course led to a shortage of grain elsewhere on up to where it is urgently needed. thus could hide under us for herb was doing until it had been noticed lot and be a larger field. top stefan meister as a political scientist and russia expect. his theory is that the war is about more than just ukraine, and i wish i was kept. i frightened audits either to put in i think there are 2 central goals, couldn't wants to a cheerful stop for film on dom at 1st. he wants to destroy ukrainian society and the state to save his empire. very people from the 2nd he wants to change the world, which has been primarily u. s. dominated born as he wants to change the european and global security order crowbars of for and on. how does the war in ukraine impact the world wide food supply? globally, only a few countries export quantities securing the majority of the world's food. between them, ukraine and russia cover almost 30 percent of global demand. in recent years, countries in asia and africa have become increasingly dependent on cheap supplies from the global north. mm. this is also the case in laura cheney at western africa. it is one of the poorest countries in the world. around a 3rd of the grain here is imported from ukraine and russia. we are in no oct shut, the capital of mauritania, almost 900000 people suffer from hunger and mauritania. the higher the grain prices on the world market, the more people they are, who cannot afford to eat. the world food program is active throughout the country to alleviate the worst of the hardship we accompany their employee, mama to sell who is responsible for food procurement. this applies have almost run out in the no actual warehouse a visible effect of the war in ukraine and high prices on the world market dimensional. and we are face as was said, the price of for do. rick is also in the say, describe the price article cookie that mean if we get to a, for contribution for from our donors, what we use to, to have in terms of quantity, we can afford since prices have doubled cash donations, no longer fund the quantities of food needed, many people can no longer be supported, leading to misery and hunger, of course, ready. so the global food system is looking vulnerable and the situation could worse and in the future isn't for lever kitten are punished, you hold for let's leave her alone. supply chains that are highly blown, our gold, ours, and if there is a disruption somewhere, the entire system is affected on out of an america. not pinkish. did. we are depended on countries or markets that are becoming increasingly authoritarian stays at all. striving for more sovereignty and independence edison, we didn't expect our plan for the fact that there could ever be wars in europe again in o. peggy in deven con. farmers are now looking for other transport routes to sell their grain. we follow a new grain export route to the north of ukraine. here near levine, few bombs are falling, but the war is still only present. even large companies are experiencing financial hardship gear for, nor can is on the board of one of ukraine's largest agricultural companies. a german native he wants to stay here despite the war his team is struggling to find new opportunities for exports. but both mobile. yeah. all i can say is logistics logistics, because if we have the logistics chain than we can sell to put the proper mistakes on high, if you in is weakened economically it risks losing the war need . and so i told him that along with our 2000 staff, many suppliers and customers, our business links with our company, think my own directly or indirectly. we provide a study income to run $6.00 to $8000.00 families crisis meetings, take place almost daily. gustavo, working under extreme emergency conditions until now, goods of also been shipped from this region by the black sea ports, new logistics chains of an unprecedented scale, have to be set up the ottoman floor. it was a cloud level from like 2 or 3 weeks ago. we talked about such a molars for reloading lot. i was just wondering if you've seen or heard anything. if you have a solution that was visible z in gretel, even towing others will come. we need a technical solution. fungi, if you find something that would be great on us valuables across the problem, is that the new roots are longer and significantly more expensive than mine for like host host pilot product, ours as a generic products and good luck, that means whoever managers to produce and deliver, we to the customer, the cheapest cost, when's the ranks consequence? if grain cannot be delivered from ukraine, other countries will step up to replace these values. ukraine has become as strong competitor to russia as a grain supply in recent years, threatening to take rushes place in the international competition. go vanilla can visits one of the solar facilities. you are a 1000 tons of grain were previously loaded here every day. since february, individual trucks have only been transporting a 100 tons per day has to be in this food. so it's frustrating. it feels like a kick him a guns for many of us leaving on the venus lock. in half a 1000000 trucks would be needed to replace the blacks, the ship transports the war and destruction of infrastructure has created a long term problem. new land routes which cross the you have to be found urgently . whether by rail on rivers or by truck. there are now huge traffic jams at the board. is it still in full political solutions passing like most not really sure from the over such they lost the signal has to come from the top and politics. it distorts naturally. it will take a political solution, not unfortunately with european bureaucracy. it is taking far too long, patient will cut to you in di, hooked up on almost us detect. we actually assume that this war will go on for longer, not just for half a year. let me be 3 for 5 years and me of i and that the black sea will continue to be blockaded by russia dentistry. i'm not sure, of course, it's in our interest for ukraine to diversify its transit routes. if we can to ensure the green a produces can reach rolled markets to clean deposits, yet of the bed map to come. we are back in noah shut in mauritania. what are the dangers if supplies from ukraine continued to fail and prices rise? bread is a major stable fitted here. when we imports failed to arrive some 10 years ago, they were riots, bloody demonstrations and protests. today the military controls the streets. and with reason, as bread prices are rising again. customers in hotter issue if's bakery. oh, worried. i heard the bread has gone up to day, the thread with how much 120 a government subsidies for bread which are common in other countries. aha to sustain in indebted mauritania. the pandemic shrank. the state budget here as well, walking through the market. we are unexpectedly surrounded by a group of men. we feel their desperation 1st hand, though i hadn't at boardington, hadn't, at that they put the price of bread up to day. i'm out, i've got, nobody knows what to do. killer prices keep rising. and when that happens here, they won't go down again. anyway, nick belushi mother, we want to set out it if the situation doesn't improve in the next few years, we will all become sophists. it's unacceptable. hard. like we're simple people, we have nothing. we want to lower the cost of living and work. we won't accept it so much money until today what i could buy 2 loaves of bread with this coin. but now you have to hand over to coin skip it, had then if the depth and what my product has shown, what i think, can you give me to begin? ha, somebody here, give me 2 begets come to god, what do i owe you? that letter? 40, how are you? good. what i did with 2 thirds of late is yeah. already spent on food. high prices mean hunger will know what good a v m. i that i did. my father is so hungry. he cannot sleep on a food is made from week to harvest. i work at live, but it's not enough for everyone, but i don't want to spend a bad desperation. if bread prices continue to rise, there is danger if civil unrest way. how did the country become so dependent on grain supplies from the broad? since colonial times wheat has been one of northern africa. staple feats spread past and pizza are signs of prosperity. local grain such as millet has been replaced. the western agricultural sector still profits from this situation to day. the colonial legacy still causes political tensions. emerson guns under schools, we have to think differently about all of our policies towards africa hunting. our approach is still very colonial, a stickler anesthesia politic. often we need to take these countries more seriously, albert of monarchy, the lender unstained the most. oh, the central african republic is one country way russia has been expanding its influence for years. in march, the attack on ukraine was met by a show of public support. some of the former soviet union often supported the african struggle against colonialism by providing weapons or building rights concerns about food imposed mingled with resentment towards former colonial powers . this conflict is reflected in politics. african countries joined together in the african union in 2002 to strengthen their participation and will trade. during the 1st peak of the great crisis chairman mock, his son was invited to saatchi by russian president vladimir putin. brougham. hootin seized the opportunity to publicly communicate his view of the great crisis . took a favor and we was regarding the export of ukrainian grain. we are not preventing it. there are several ways to export grain responsible for it was a huge amount. vladimir putin does not mention the bombing of ukrainian ports. he blames western sanctions on russia for the crisis. monkey saw agrees with as few as a bogus your dorset sooner so were our former. this is melissa mccall. i think that if we find the right solution would cylinder law, we will inform the european nations to alicia at hulu, live brooklyn, and also canada will. she will go live less live functional, sued. that will mean they stopped their sanctions against all kinds of fertilizer or louis. it does fertilizers, which are important for our agriculture element and against the export of russian. we'll select both. does show debra. this he is following the russian narrative, yet agricultural products are explicitly excluded. from western sanctions, by is putin's view. so convincing ones are probably mr. here that the, our problem is that for other reasons we have a rather bad image. and parts of this region window not rushes on the scene. it appears as a viable alternative, but even kind of it is not a former colonial power. my thought is well received and has achieved a certain success. bear with us misinformation and disinformation thought. and i think we should rethink our own history and how we interact with these countries. see stone when government isn't done like a dogma. this is the early all the world us. oh, put in newton. they certainly doesn't want to be regarded world wide as the leader who is driving hunger hyped disputes out there as a shirley. he already has that image in the west, which is also accurate by that of thought. this probably doesn't bother him emotional image on dash because the water condemns him in any way. we're tired enough. the in viet, depending on how the war develops and what the outcome might be. there's definitely the danger of a new geo political division in the world. your politician swiped hard on an innovative, pushed it off in fire. as fears of famine grow around the world, the harvest begins in the fields of ukraine. ah, russian attacks continue. ukraine reports losses, grain prices keep rising, which means good business for all the other trade is on the world market, including russia. unexpectedly, russia reports increased exports, fell, may, how come? in the south of ukraine, farmers accused russia of stealing grain from the occupied territories. we meet an informant whose identity is concealed. the town where he lives is under fire. we will fight back. there is real resistance. our informant is a farmer. we call him sasha. he is threatened by the same fate as his colleagues under russian occupation. the russians came and asked if a farmer here had any diesel. he said no, but they found a container with 3 or 5 tons of it and took it this cannot be independently verified. but so we can form our own opinion. a social calls, a friend, the farmer, living under russian occupations since march. how are you? are you okay? are you? well, yes, i'm well, thank god mm. our informant lives some way here in the occupied territories. in front of his house, he has observed russian grain transports. in the beginning, they removed their russian license plates. but now they just drive around with them on the convoys drive and pick up the grain and drive away again, day and night. and it's all going to crimea, right? yes, everything is taken to crimea. is this true? we want to know more and check the facts from the region where our informant lives . there are 2 main roads going all the way to crimea, and the ports of service to pull and fear, dozier serviceable, is especially conveniently located for international c trade. mm. we contact a company and ask for satellite images. we checked the ukrainian data. indeed, satellite images revealed that the of lisa grain terminal was bustling with cargo activity and june loading takes place on the 3rd of june. there is further loading on june the 5th, the 12 and the 16th. the load is always yellow in canada. similar to grain, alcorn, and obviously in large quantities, so they transported a total of a $140000.00 tons of grain. yes, and thought was just here. we received several reports of large quantities of grain being transported from ukraine. although this cannot be independently verified. what is certain is that only $8000.00 tons of food was shipped per year from savannah to pull in 201920202021. but in 2022. the figures increased 245-0000 tons for all food products. it is not possible to conclude exactly where this came from and how it came into russian possession. am i upset? of course. i'm upset. we're losing a lot. we confront russian ministries with these allegations, but we received no answer. according to its own data, russia expose it over 80 percent more wheat in may than in the previous year. income from exports is key. as professor mos him, kime explains. as the arc tendency, it was a shallow chart i was slung, since russia already explored a lot of grain, it tends to strengthen. the russian economy comes with normal and pies. and if russia can export at enormously high prices, than course at the gold mine was slant export and this was back, the more russia can export you. the more the russian economy benefits was one. lucille and these are the 2 at the moment show. russia has to generate income to keep financing the war that's financing and putting as i'm from mark minch. there couldn't is power hungry list. he will pull out all the stops to stay in power and to enforce his will and could tie the destroying or stealing and selling grain is all part of staying and power generating revenue supply and weakening ukraine economically to get another one home depot carina economist especially the pressure on grain markets as growing the attacks on the black sea ports are causing prices to rise. soon wheat will cost more than ever before becoming unaffordable for many customers. world wide farmers are trying to compensate for the shortages also by using up. they stocks in the port of rostock, germany. a ship is being loaded to deliver we to mauritania, look fixed. he there is a grain traitor. either let me figure he is shipping 27500 tons of we to africa from last year's harvest a nicely thankful if you smell it right. mil frisch, ah, this is philip mumford only martin luther nextiva lived and worked in ukraine for several years. he wishes his colleagues, there were able to deliver the grain themselves for will cartoonish lunda for the sake of all ukrainian farmers. we would very much like to see odessa, port free again, hadn't, good of the grain being loaded here is mainly from mecklenburg, western pomeranian. it was put into storage, and the sailors of rostock port last year looked fixed. clever had no idea then how much he would own with this. we are, sam, that's good. hi to him. handsome new vinegar calls. it will still be can we bought the grain in the fall and winter with we did not know the buyer but still had to submit a price to the farmers could fight. then we owned the grain and had a big price risk that the value of the goods on the ship is about $11000000.00 euros. we have to hedge the residents, so hazy cooperation. in this case he will make a profit. but why has the price of wheat risen so dramatically since the start of the war politic sleeva? it's mainly due to uncertainty about how much grain will be available this year in the script. i know on fact i sure it will. normally, there has been extensive economic literature on it over the last few years later. what we know today is very simple. math the markets assess whether we have enough stock to last until the next harvest with any noise. well, the wheat last until new wheat is harvested. however, if it doesn't due to awful circumstances like the war, then prices will rising and that's the only reason i can the pies and i was kind a none good. the attack on ukraine has exposed the weaknesses of the global food supply chain, compensation, justice, american with what in char? i think it is important to reduce rushes potential for blackmail. do you to at least take this leverage out of russia's hands off to 100 name and when he shot. but i think we also have to question our system in the way we have use globalization to our own advantage. and for our prosperity. and for tyler hutton demons then we will be able to reduce his vulnerability and hopefully also the fear have fallen couldn't when, when talking to all the angst. and what about ukraine? at the end of our filming, we hear that the fighting has intensified. there is still uncertainty about how flu ah people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away and the border families inferior to the credit on its way located demonstrate people seeing extreme ground. ross getting 200 people, his son from the agency around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes, the wine because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah. this week on the world stories how turkey is banning festivals and the provinces fighting against illegal fishing in italy with sculptures, we start and ukraine for 8 months. it was not possible to take a train from keep the.