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Schools and hotels in Britain and Ireland are reportedly now struggling to keep some beef dishes on the menu due to ever-inflating prices.

Good luck shopping for your Fourth of July cookout!

John Catsimatidis warned that food prices are still rising as the Biden administration continues to struggle to contain surging inflation. 

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.  

John Kirby appeared at the White House daily briefing to discuss the president’s foreign policy agenda, including his efforts to get grain out of Ukraine and into global markets.

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

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

A lettuce shortage in Australia recently forced some Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants to replace iceberg lettuce on their sandwiches with cabbage, Australia’s Seven News network reported on Tuesday.

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.

The index tracking poultry prices is up 94% compared with a year ago.

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.

Schoolchildren in Wales are being fed bugs as part of a research programme by publicly-funded universities “to educate children on the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects across the UK”, according to the left-wing i newspaper.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the still will “put our arms around the British people again as we did during Covid” amid the cost of living and inflationary crisis.

During an interview with CBS on Wednesday, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) predicted that food prices will increase over the summer, but as long as there aren’t weather issues, there shouldn’t be shortages. Tester stated, “Look, we’ve got our challenges out

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned that shortages of Ukrainian and Russian grain caused by the war and associated Russo-Western sanctions class will likely cause famine and new migration waves.

Farmers in the east of Germany are warning of widespread crop failures due to a lack of rainfall in the region.

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.

The inflation rate in Canada in March was recorded at 6.7 per cent, the highest rate of inflation in 31-years, increasing by a full percentage point over February’s figure. Inflation, or the costs of various goods in Canada, is rapidly

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that India is ready to fill the food supply gap caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine and “feed the world” — but is waiting on approval for this effort from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Times of India reported.

As the entire world faces into a period of serious food instability, Russian armed forces have been actively targetting wheat stocks in Ukraine for destruction, an EU official has claimed.

Dairy farmers the latest in Euro agri-sector to report impending crisis as soaring costs of energy and animal feed slash margins and profits.

ROME (AP) – The United Nations says prices for world food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month due to fallout from the war in Ukraine.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger and two top European Union officials are in Kyiv looking to shore up the bloc’s support for war-torn Ukraine.

German supermarkets are raising prices by as much as 50% on some goods such as cooking oils, meat, and cheese due to the war in Ukraine. 

A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.

No food from international aid groups has entered northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region since Addis Ababa and Tigrayan separatists announced a truce — specifically to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Tigray — in their civil war on March 25, World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

Ethiopia’s 16-month-long civil war observed a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier to allow humanitarian aid delivery to Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

China’s Agriculture and Finance Ministries issued a joint notice on Friday urging farmers to maximize China’s spring plowing season of wheat and soybeans from early April in an effort to alleviate an expected global food supply shortage caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Jen Psaki said food shortages were not expected to hit the United States, but rather countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

The world may be careering towards global famine as food insecurity spirals as Russia blocks grain exports from Ukraine.