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De Tijd (the Netherlands) published an article stating that we are headed to a food security crisis. to stifle protests against rising prices, more and more countries are introducing export restrictions on food and fertilizers. But that just increases food insecurity, experts say. “Export bans are the worst possible response.” Twenty countries have imposed export […]

Epoch Times–Chinese published an article about how the impact of poor climate and inflation, coupled with the Russian-Ukrainian war, has contributed to global food and food protectionism. Since the outbreak of the crisis, 27 countries around the world have set up food-related trade barriers, exacerbating the supply crisis in the global food market. According to […]

Tech News Insight published an article stating that food prices have been on the rise in the past few months. And industry watchers said rice, a staple food in much of Asia, maybe next. Prices of many foods have risen, from wheat and other grains to meat and oils. This was driven by a number of […]

Stockhead.com (Australia) published an article stating that Google Analytics reckons sunflower seeds are a big hit throughout the world in different forms.  But they can also be pressed into sunflower oil. According to IFPRI (see the blog post, The impact of the Ukraine crisis on the global vegetable oil market), the supply of sunflower oil, […]

Phil Star (Global business section) published an article that stated attaining food self-sufficiency is of utmost important. The government cannot and should not treat our agricultural sector and our farmers as dispensable just because our consuming public can import everything it needs. We should be importing only those crops that cannot be grown here. But for […]

Financial Times published an article stating that soaring food prices caused by the war in Ukraine have increased the risk of famine, raising pressure on producers of low-carbon fuels derived from crops and sparking a “food versus biofuel” debate. Before Russia’s invasion, global biofuel production was at a record high. In the US, the leading […]

CNBC News published an article stating that food prices have been on the rise in the past few months. And rice, a staple food in much of Asia, could be next to see higher prices, industry watchers said. The prices of many foods, ranging from wheat and other grains to meat and oils, have shot […]

Daily Wire published an article stating that the Biden administration announced a plan on Thursday to address looming food shortages in the Western hemisphere. In the aftermath of COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced recession, supply chain bottlenecks have contributed to rising food prices in the United States. The worldwide food supply has more recently been impacted […]

MUI Daily News published a blog post on how bad weather, droughts, disruptions associated with COVID-19, rising energy prices, and now the war in Ukraine … threats to the world’s food supply are mounting. Following in the footsteps of Ukraine and Russia, many countries are trying to protect themselves from the shock by introducing restrictions […]

Farms.com published an article writing that with a Covid-19 weary world, the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and abetted by Belarus, the global ag sector is in flux. With Russia and Belarus major suppliers of fertilizers for farming, since the Autumn of 2021 countries have initiated sanctions and export restrictions on foods and fertilizer […]