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Title: These Countries Face Unprecedented Hunger Crises Due To The Ukraine War
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi ... -hunger-crises-due-ukraine-war
Published: Mar 4, 2022
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2022-03-04 06:01:52 by Horse
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The war between Ukraine and Russia will make the world's hunger crisis even tougher to fight. The countries - one of which has traditionally been called Europe's bread basket - are two of the world's major suppliers of staple grains like wheat, and a protracted crisis increases the likelihood of supply interruptions and higher food prices for many people -- including those who can least afford them. Gallup data offer insight into the populations most likely to suffer from a prolonged disruption: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also struggling to afford food before the war broke out. Many of the countries on this list, including Egypt, Turkey and Kenya, are also dealing with political instability and conflict, situations only made worse when populations go hungry. At the top of the list is Turkey which received a full 75% of its wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine in 2019, ranking it among the most dependent on sources from those countries. In 2021, a slim majority of Turks (51%) reported being unable to afford food in the past 12 months. Turkey's current vulnerability may be further heightened by its lingering economic crisis and high levels of inflation. The second most reliant country, Egypt, received 70% of the country's grain imports from Russia and Ukraine in 2019. More than four in 10 (41%) Egyptians in 2021 reported lacking money for food at some point in the last 12 months. This measure was on the higher end of Gallup's trend for the issue but lower than the record-high 48% of Egyptians that said so in 2016. Egypt's economy was initially hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it could still register positive growth for 2020 and 2021. However, inflation has been up in the country, and further increases in food prices related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine may erase the modest gains the Egyptian economy has made. Kenya received just over a third of its wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine in 2019, well below the percentages of imports in Turkey or Egypt. However, nearly seven in 10 Kenyans reported having lacked money for food in the last year, substantially higher percentages than in Turkey or Egypt. It is unclear how long disruptions in the food supply will last, though it has already triggered higher wheat prices around the globe. For the developed world, increased prices for wheat will likely result in painful increases in food prices, but these populations will continue to get by. In the developing world, where populations already struggle to afford food, they may result in substantial additional hardship and instability. Disruption of Ukrainian wheat supplies may prove doubly painful for countries already squeezed by food insecurity. Ukraine was the second-largest supplier of wheat to the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) in 2020 and 2021. Unable to procure wheat from Ukraine, WFP will likely have to purchase the grain from other, more expensive sources and thus have less aid to provide to those at the greatest risk. Poster Comment: Every farmer in the world knows his last planting date which is the last day he can plant. The war has to stop at least a month before that date so farmers can get organized and get their seeds, compost, fertilizers and other supplies needed for planting. Known as the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine produces 12 percent of global wheat exports, 16 percent of corn and 18 percent of barley exports. Many farmers in western Ukraine have been planting spring wheat which must be planted by now. Most wheat is planted in Autumn so the war has to be resolved in the next few months. Russia might take everything on the east side of the Dnieper river. The Dnieper river starts in Russia and flows through Belarus and then the Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. Roughly a third of the Ukraine would go to Russia but these people are Russians and not Ukrainians.
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Nigeria spends over half of household income on food, and there are nine other countries that spend over 40% on food. Four of them are in Africa: Nigeria 56.4%; Kenya 46.7%; Cameroon 45.6%; and Algeria 42.5%. Four are in Asia: Kazakhstan 43.0%; Philippines 41.9%; Pakistan 40.9%; and Azerbaijan 40.1%. Vietnam spends 38.7% and Guatemala spends 40.8%.
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