April 25, 2021
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by Dr.Chelston WD Brathwaite
Some governments around the world are moving to secure domestic food supplies during this pandemic. According to Bloomberg News of March 24, 2020: “Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, banned exports of that product along with others, including carrots, sugar, and potatoes. Vietnam suspended new rice export contracts.
Serbia has stopped the flow of its sunflower oil and other goods, while Russia is leaving the door open to shipment bans and said that it is assessing the situation weekly.” Other nations, from Cambodia to Ukraine, have also throttled food exports, writes Cullen Hendrix, a senior researcher at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on March 30, 2020 report.