Russia must stop using food as a weapon

Food price volatility will likely persist as long as Russia puts the global food supply under stress, aggravating the global cost-of-living crisis, particularly for vulnerable people in developing nations.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Before Russia’s war of aggression against it, Ukraine has been a critical global food supplier, producing a fifth of the world’s barley, a sixth of the maize and an eighth of wheat. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY JOSEP BORRELL FONTELLES

August 3, 2023

On July 17, Russia decided to not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative that allows Ukraine to export agricultural goods to global markets, nearly one year after the deal was signed in Istanbul. As underlined by the United Nations' secretary general, this initiative has been ...

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