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Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

By Dmitry Zhdannikov, GFM Network News May 27, 2022

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it

Workers fill jerrycans with cooking oil at a distribution station in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Crops, Markets

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

By GFM Network News May 24, 2022

Davos | Reuters — A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum said. In a sign of the escalating squeeze on food supplies and rising prices, a government

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a “Global Food Security Call to Action” meeting of foreign ministers at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 18, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Crops

U.N. chief in talks on restoring Ukraine grain exports

Contact made amid global food crisis

By GFM Network News May 18, 2022

United Nations | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and the European Union in an effort to restore Ukrainian grain export as a global food crisis worsens. “I am hopeful, but there is still a way to go,” said

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

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: The humanitarian fallout of war

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

By Daniel Maxwell May 17, 2022

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

A still image from a video allegedly showing a Russian strike on a grain elevator in Ukraine.

Farmit Manitoba, News

One step away from world hunger

Ukraine’s woes will soon spill over its borders affecting the globe

By Ihor Pavliuk May 17, 2022

A month ago, a photo of a peasant household in one of the villages of northern Ukraine liberated from Russian troops spread around social networks. The occupiers deliberately scattered the grain over the dirt so that it could not be used. Something similar already happened in Ukraine in 1932-33, when the deliberate genocide of Ukrainians

Canada will be fine when it comes to food access, but food will cost more which will make things difficult for some consumers.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Is Ottawa aware the world is on the brink of a food shortage?

Canada needs to boost its food security and its sustainable agriculture trade

By Sylvain Charlebois May 11, 2022

Food supply chain issues have enticed many to question the global nature of our food systems. Some are suggesting we need to deglobalize and refocus our energy into making most economies around the world food sovereign. Given what the world is about to face this year, with major famine among millions experiencing acute hunger, it’s

Cargo ships are docked in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Nov. 4, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Crops, Markets

Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

Russia has mounted a blockade of Ukrainian ports

By GFM Network News, Pavel Polityuk May 10, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s president called on the international community on Monday to take immediate steps to end a Russian blockade of his country’s ports to allow wheat exports and prevent a global food crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made his comments in an online post after speaking to European Council President Charles Michel, who

Yuri and Oleksiy, farmers wearing body armours and helmets, prepare for field work in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region amid Russia’s invasion, on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Crops

Worsening global food security needs Ukraine, Russia production, UN chief says

By GFM Network News May 5, 2022

Abuja | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday the problem of global food security could not be solved without restoring Ukrainian agricultural production and Russian food and fertilizer output to the world market. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has added to volatility in financial markets, sending commodity prices higher and affecting logistics,

‘We need more initiatives that enable equitable distribution of land, water and income globally.’

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: ‘Too many people, not enough food’ isn’t the cause of hunger

Inequality and war are the root causes of global food insecurity

By Gisele Yasmeen May 4, 2022

Nearly one in three people in the world did not have access to enough food in 2020. That’s an increase of almost 320 million people in one year and it’s expected to get worse with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia. Climate change-related floods, fires and

News

U.S. Treasury secretary blames Russian war in Ukraine for global food insecurity

Comments were made during a high-level international panel on food security

By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder May 2, 2022

Reuters – Russia’s war in Ukraine is to blame for exacerbating “already dire” world food insecurity, with price and supply shocks adding to global inflationary pressures, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said April 19. Why it matters: The panel, including representatives from the G7, G20, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, covered food security, rising

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures lower after sideways trade

U.S. grains: Wheat ends higher on short covering though ample supply weighs

Klassen: Feeder market closes year on soft tone

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