The cause of the threat of global hunger
International organizations, including the United Nations are expressing fears about the possible fatal consequences of the “special operation” of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine for world food supplies.
Due to the fact Ukraine and Russia are the main grains and oilseeds exporters, some regions are threatened with food shortages and famine, while world food prices are hitting a record high. According to the UN, the events in Ukraine can provoke food prices to rise by 22%.
The report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states the long-term consequences for the global food system will be felt into 2023 or longer.
Ukraine and Russia produce tenth of the calories consumed in the world.
The Western world’s accusation of Russia in the global food crisis is growing, but it is necessary to understand that the production decline of grain and other crops in Russia is the result of Western sanctions, writes Bloomberg.
Today, the economic war is launched against Moscow, which is aimed at destroying Russia’s economic and production potential, including agriculture.
The West knows that Russia is one of the main suppliers of food and fertilizer to the markets of developing countries, including Africa, and with its sanctions actions purposefully disrupts production and supplies, thereby provoking the same food crisis and hunger. Someone will say the sanctions were introduced to stop the special military operation of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, but why do Western countries hold the population of the poorest African countries hostage to the situation.
Why is the population of Africa becoming an instrument of the Western blackmail? The goal is to provoke a resonance around the world, accusing Moscow of all global problems which are caused by the US and its vassals conducting a targeted policy of sanctions pressure on independent states in order to achieve their narrow national goals.
Any thinking person today understands the emerging catastrophic military-political situation in Ukraine has been caused by Washington’s longterm
desire to create a fascist anti-Russian state in order to maintain US hegemony in the world.
The resolute Russians’ response to ensure their own
security caused hysteria in the West, which is ready to increasingly complicate the economic and security situation in the world, including hunger to provoke conflicts between Russia
and its traditional partners.
The head of the World Food Program David Beasley called for attention to the Sahel, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. If they are forgotten, the consequences will
be catastrophic. There is no peace without food security. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhry called the coming famines around the world “inevitable”.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine are critical for a large number of countries, including Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh and Iran, which receive about 60% of their grain exports from these two countries.
Russia demonstrates a firm readiness to fulfill its obligations to supply food to African and Asian countries, but the arrest of dry cargo ships by Western countries and the partial disconnection of Russian banks from SWIFT destroys the integrity of logistical and financial international ties.
The inability to provide Russian and Belarusian fertilizers to agricultural-producing countries will inevitably cause a significant reduction in the yield of the main grain crops on their territory. The leaders and populations of developing countries should consider the emerging situation based solely on their own national interests and not succumb to the anti-Russian slogans of the West.
The food crisis, in fact, is provoked by the West through largescale illegal economic sanctions against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus without any regard to the food security of African and other countries.