Manitoba Co-operator
Many nations across the Middle East and North Africa are major wheat importers and buy much of their supply from Russia and Ukraine.

Comment: The humanitarian fallout of war

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute hunger to the highest level in this century

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions for other countries, many of them thousands of miles away. Together, Russia and Ukraine account for almost 30 per cent of total global exports of wheat, nearly 20 per cent of global exports of corn (maize) and