Seven weeks since the Russian invasion, an estimated six million people need food and cash assistance, according to the UN World Food Program (WFP), which has provided relief to previously inaccessible areas such as Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel and Borodianka.
Ukraine has insufficient storage capacity even for its reduced 2022 grain harvest, the United Nations’ World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with the country struggling to export existing stocks during the invasion by Russia. Jakob Kern, the World Food Programme’s emergency coordinator in Ukraine, cited estimates that 20% of planted areas in Ukraine will not .
GENEVA - The World Food Program says it is scaling up delivery of food aid into previously inaccessible areas of Ukraine’s conflict but too many are
Bloomberg writers Megan Durisin and Sybilla Gross reported yesterday that, "Chicago corn futures are hovering close to a decade high reached earlier Tuesday as the war in Ukraine curtails grain sales and weather hampers crops elsewhere."
The WHO said Tuesday it was struggling to deliver two generators to hospitals in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, fearing the worst for its hard-hit health system.