Source:  NEW EUROPE, 6/1/22

Leading officials including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres are sounding the alarm over the alarming state of global food security. The war in Ukraine, Guterres recently highlighted, risks tipping “tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity, followed by malnutrition, mass hunger and famine, in a crisis that could last for years”. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of staple crops, and the conflict in the country has caused sharp rises in wheat and fertiliser prices...

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