food shortages

Ukraine, once the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its farming sector to recover after the war with Russia.

UK inflation rose again in February to over 10 per cent amid rising food prices, the country’s office for national statistics has confirmed.

The beef cattle inventory in the United States is at its lowest point since 1962, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Shortages of fruits and vegetables in UK supermarkets could last for months amid high energy prices, a leading farmers’ organisation said.

The worldwide food and fuel crises saw a spike in protests in countries across Europe in 2022, research by the American University has found.

The rapid inflation in the cost of fertilisers as a result of the Ukraine war could see as many as one million additional people die of hunger-related deaths, a report has claimed.

Farmers are to be offered even more money by the government to adopt green agenda policies, the British government’s food department has announced.

The G20 member nations published an epic 10,000-word statement on Wednesday at the conclusion of their annual summit stating that “most” members “strongly condemned” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and opposing sanctions on food and fertilizer products.

Russia announced it would no longer comply with the United Nations-negotiated pact to allow the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.

Dutch schoolchildren have been fed mealworms as part of a behavioural change programme backed by the government.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Czech capital of Prague to demand an end to sanctions against Russia on Wednesday,

Britain’s climate-driven push for more solar farms is now risking the country’s food security, the head of the state’s environment committee has claimed.

Elected representatives in the Netherlands have grilled the country’s government over exactly how many farms will be forced to close to satisfy the EU’s Great Reset green agenda.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has expressed dismay that Brexit has temporarily delayed efforts to normalise the consumption of bugs to achieve “net zero”.

(AFP) – Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.

The head of a major fast food chain in Ireland has expressed concern that the country may face food shortages this coming winter, telling the general public that they should stock up.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets.

(AFP) – Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odessa Saturday, officials said, in an attack Kyiv described as a “spit in the face” of a deal signed by the warring neighbours a day earlier to resume grain exports blocked by the conflict.

(AFP) – The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine.

The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada are reportedly blocking a British plan to fight food shortages and inflation by cutting back on biofuels in favour of edible crops, claiming it endangers their “net zero” ambitions.  

Independent grocery shop owners in Quito told Ecuador’s El Comercio newspaper on Wednesday that they have struggled with intense food shortages in recent days caused by distributors’ fears of violence by leftist rioters.

The White House remains silent about whether officials are monitoring new and challenging shortages of food and basic product used by Americans.

A plan proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to see grain exported from Ukraine has had holes poked in it by Poland.

Ukrainian farmers are reportedly preparing for a “hell” harvest season, with physical and financial dangers looking to prevent them from reaping, transporting and selling their crops.

The UK government looks set to force the likes of schools and hospitals to source up to half their food from their local area.

The British government is launching a ‘Grow for Britain’ initiative to try and boost domestic food production, a leaked document has revealed.

Instead of addressing real threats to human health, WHO has issued a report on the mental health impact from so-called climate change.

The current state of global food insecurity and famine is worse than the conditions that preceded the Arab Spring, the UN has warned.

EU leaders have echoed pre-existing fears that the ongoing global food crisis could lead to the next European migrant crisis.

EU leaders have begged those in Africa not to blame the West for the ongoing Global Food Crisis, saying that the current sanctions on Russia shouldn’t be affecting supply.

Thanks to global supply problems caused by the likes of the war in Ukraine, experts have claimed that a “massively dependent” Britain is only one catastrophe away from food shortages.

A study on social mobility in Britain has found that the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic is likely to have long term negative effects on the opportunities of young people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed the West last week to lift sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame from Russia to the West.

French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to lift the blockade on Ukrainian grain in order to mitigate the growing global food crisis.

Germany’s federal authorities are considering a bailout for low-income citizens as the country’s cost of living crisis looks “likely” to worsen.