Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has warned that Italy may face a surge of new illegal migrant arrivals as a food crisis looms due to a lack of grain shipments from Ukraine.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine should remove sea mines from areas near its ports to allow safe shipping.
Russia will lift its blockade of the Black Sea and allow grain to be exported again from Ukraine once Western nations lift sanctions, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister has said.
Davos attendees have been discussing the global food crisis, with the head of the World Food Programme warning of ‘famines around the world’.
An EU plan to export Ukrainian grain using the country’s train networks to alleviate the global food crisis is “highly unlikely” to work, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
In the midst of a global food crisis, a report from environmental org the WWF has slammed the EU for its lack of food self-sustainability.
Using gene editing to make more resilient crops could help in the fight against food insecurity, experts have told British ministers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of worsening the global food crisis by using “hunger as a weapon” at a G7 meeting on Wednesday.
A shortage of food due to the Ukraine crisis poses an “apocalyptic” threat to UK consumers, the UK’s central bank head has warned.
German citizens should be willing to endure hardship and deprivation to help in the war effort against Russia, a Ukrainian minister has said.
Germany’s Minister for Agriculture has called on EU red tape to be cut in order to allow farmers to grow more wheat.
Food planting in Ukraine is down between 25-30 per cent as the country struggles to export already harvested produce.
Farmers in the east of Germany are warning of widespread crop failures due to a lack of rainfall in the region.
Afghan news outlets Khaama Press and Ariana News reported on Thursday that an estimated 97 percent of citizens in the country are currently suffering the effects of food shortages, citing the United Nations.
What if the problem is not just the nonexistence of a “free lunch” but a shortage of lunches altogether?
The global food supply is experiencing severe stress.
After weeks of claims of deliberate sabotage of Ukraine’s food infrastructure, Kyiv has published images claiming a Russian attack on grain.
Grain production in Ukraine is likely to see around a 20 per cent fall, prompting inflation and global food security concerns from the UK Ministry of Defence.
Food shortages are on the cards for Britain due to the spiking cost of farming thanks in part to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is deliberately creating a global food crisis as well as a massive migrant crisis in the hopes of putting pressure on Europe, one leader has claimed.
The IMF has become the most recent global body to release a warning regarding forthcoming global food shortages, saying that vulnerable nations are at risk of civil unrest amid supply issues.
Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai – and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo – show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China’s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.
Shanghai, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, is currently experiencing food shortages due to stringent lockdown measures designed to contain its ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the Global Times reported on Thursday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday published a fulminating editorial denying widespread reports of serious problems with China’s spring planting season, including shortages of fertilizer and farmers prevented from tending to their fields by coronavirus lockdowns.
Sri Lankan police officers “assaulted” a group of Sri Lankan soldiers on Tuesday after the servicemen approached Sri Lanka’s parliament building in Colombo in an aggressive manner as part of an unannounced visit, Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror reported on Wednesday.
Supplies of potato chips and various types of confectionery are now under threat as a result of disrupted export caused by sanctions and the Ukraine War.
Almost all of the Sri Lankan government’s Cabinet — apart from the nation’s president and prime minister — resigned from their posts on Sunday amid Sri Lanka’s worsening economic crisis, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.
The socialist government of Spain said that supermarkets will be allowed to ration as a part of its “Response Plan” to the war in Ukraine.
Chinese Communist Party authorities have seemingly prioritized microchips over hungry citizens this week, according to two reports published by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday, which reveal the Party ensured semiconductor production continued unabated in Shanghai during its latest lockdown to contain the Chinese coronavirus while simultaneously failing to provide sufficient food to residents of northeastern China’s Changchun city during its own lockdown.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Tuesday accused Russia of jeopardizing global food security by blocking grain exports from Ukraine.
A local Communist Party-controlled radio station in Cuba published an article on Monday promoting the consumption of “cockroach milk,” a substance it admitted had a “rancid taste” but could become the new “superfood.”
BEIRUT (AP) – Layal Aswad was already exhausted by Lebanon’s devastating two-year economic collapse. Now, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends food and energy prices soaring even further, she finds herself struggling to put food on the table for her family of four.
Food banks are feeling strains from inflated prices and increased demand, while President Biden says a food shortage looms, per a report.
It is astonishing that the president of the United States stood before the world this week predicting “real food shortages” without mentioning a plan to keep us fed.
He pointed out that Russia and Ukraine were considered the “breadbasket of Europe,” producing nearly a third of wheat exports around the world.
Jen Psaki said food shortages were not expected to hit the United States, but rather countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused grain costs to soar as both countries contribute a large portion of those products globally.
#BareShelvesBiden has been trending on Twitter as shoppers use the slogan when posting pictures of empty and sparse grocery store shelves.
Junior’s Cheesecake is experiencing some major issues because of a cream cheese shortage, according to CNN Business.
Lunches for school children on Wednesday are reportedly being impacted throughout the nation by President Biden’s supply chain crisis, forcing children conserve forks and spoons at schools.
