Al Jazeera published an article on how a long blockade will worsen food shortages in the Middle East and North Africa, sparking a migration crisis and leading to calls for an end to war.
Senior research fellow David Laborde said, “If the blockade continues, the world will be in a very delicate situation on food security. For countries that depend directly on Ukrainian wheat, it could be devastating.” Laborde also said that in India which has banned wheat exports after a poor harvest, is the world’s largest rice exporter, followed by Thailand and Vietnam. “If there’s a bad monsoon in India or a hurricane that destroys crops in Southeast Asia, we’re in deep, deep trouble, with nothing to fall back on.”