The heatwaves and massive forest fires that hit Europe have severely affected crops and livestock on the continent, worsening food shortages across the globe. If the heatwaves and forest fires [.]
Economists are sounding the alarm after India put new restrictions on wheat and sugar exports. Radhika Piplani, an economist from Yes Bank Ltd. warns that rice may be next, as India begins to [.]
A food insecurity expert warned that there's only 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in the world as Russian invasion disrupts production. This was reported by Harrison Smith during the May 23 [.]
neutral naval ships like countries like sweden to escort them, if putin i don t think he would block it. he wants to us an the food weapon to win in ukraine what he could not win on the battle field, pressure on ukraine. sandra: interesting point. use neutral shipping to get the food out. if he wants to starve hundreds of millions, i don t think he can withstand that kind of pressure. sandra: just a step back and put it in perspective, ukraine and russia account for 30% of the world s wheat supply. you are talking about an astronomical amount of food supply concentrated in that one area of the world. so the world is dependent on these grains. you look at what s happening here at home, questions about whether or not the united states and our farmers can make up for some of the loss, it s not going so well here. this is north dakota planting rate, it has plummeted, the slowest rate in history.