War fuels food crisis

ABSTRACT

It is shown that three compounding crises (conflict, COVID, and climate change) are giving rise to another hunger. Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent food prices to an all-time high by disrupting commodity flows from two of the world's largest exporters of wheat and other staples. Importantly, food prices are rising along with, and because of, other major global economic challenges, including rising inflation, the pandemic which continues to snarl supply chains, and climate change which threatens production across many of the world's agricultural regions. The number of people without sufficient food consumption is back to where it was in the early 2000s.