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Trade Beta Blog published a recap of the WTO seminar on food security. Trade experts warned that countries should avoid reacting hastily to the food security challenge posed by the war in Ukraine and avoid worsening the crisis. The impact of the war in Ukraine in 2022 is now well-known: a crisis in supply, prices, […]

Foreign Policy published an article that Moscow and Washington battle at the U.N. to assign responsibility for a looming food crisis that threatens millions with starvation. Even before the war, Russia had imposed export taxes on its wheat, and the insecurity brought about by trading in a war zone has driven up shipping and insurance […]

Business Standard reposted an IFPRI blog post by researchers Abdullah Mamun, Joseph Glauber, and David Laborde. The post illustrates how disruptions in wheat, vegetable oil, and fertilizer markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drive up prices and threaten supplies in Bangladesh. The conflict threatens Bangladesh’s recent progress. According to an IFPRI study, the proportion […]

National Journal published an article on how policy advocates and experts want Congress to provide additional dollars to address the crisis, including through the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which works to deliver food in regions experiencing conflict and disasters. Prices have gone up globally and that will hit African countries hard because of their high import […]

ABC News published an article stating that global cooking oil prices have been rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began for multiple reasons, from poor harvests in South America to virus-related labor shortages and steadily increasing demand from the biofuel industry. The war in Ukraine — which supplies nearly half of the world’s sunflower oil, on […]

CBS42 published an article on how food prices are on the rise across the world. The prices of vegetable oil, for example, hit an all-time high in February and then again in March. Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow, told AP that continued low supplies could force countries to find a balance between using oils […]

National Journal published an article on how policy advocates and experts want Congress to provide additional dollars to address the crisis, including through the U.N.’s World Food Programme, which works to deliver food in regions experiencing conflict and disasters. Prices have gone up globally and that will hit African countries hard because of their high import […]

BBC World News (Spanish version) published an article stating that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare an international landscape marked by a “new Iron Curtain” separating Russia from the West that some experts fear could trigger a global food crisis. A humanitarian catastrophe is looming. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber says that “it is […]

The Irish News published an article stating that one of the groups hardest hit by inflation and rising prices will be pensioners and soon-to-be pensioners. Pensioners are getting poorer. Moreover, more of their income is being eaten up by the cost of food, heating, and essentials, as the fallout from the war in Ukraine and […]

SmogLab published an article that stated Ukraine produces enough food to feed 400 million people on Earth.” A food crisis will be the result of the ongoing war. Among other things, hunger in countries dependent on the supply of grains and seeds from Ukraine, and a further increase in food prices in other countries.  The […]