8 minutes agoUN warns rising chronic hunger due to war in Ukraine
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(4 years ago)Decreasing food reserves due to the blocking of exports of cereals and other food products from Ukraine and Russia could cause 11 million to 19 million people to suffer chronic hunger over the next year, the UN food agency said. Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased [...]
Decreasing food reserves due to the blocking of exports of cereals and other food products from Ukraine and Russia could cause 11 million to 19 million people to suffer chronic hunger over the next year, the UN food agency said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased the prices of cereal, food oil, fuel and waste. Russia and Ukraine are large wheat exporters, as these two states make up a third of the world's grain supplies.
Russia is also one of the largest waste exporters, while Ukraine exports wheat and sunflower oil.
The impact of war “could lead to 11 to 19 million people being affected by hunger, chronic hunger on 2023”, Boubaker Ben Belhassen of the Food and Agriculture Organisation said on June 10th.
These estimates are based on lowering exports of food products from Ukraine and Russia.
The most affected “The states are in the North and South Africa region, given their heavy dependence on imports, separately on wheat, but also on food oil”, he said.
He added that other countries, including in Africa and Asia, such as Bangladesh and Indonesia, are being deeply affected by blockades in Ukrainian exports.
Ukrainian Black Sea ports have been blocked by Russian troops, which have launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, raising concerns about a global food crisis.
