The US has accused Russia of using food as a weapon by holding ‘hostage’ grain and oil supplies, threatening a global food crisis
A grain harvesting combine is shown in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. File photo:123RF/BONDVIT Ukraine is seeking ways to get grain and vegetable oils out of the country by breaking a months-long blockade of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea by the Russian navy and moving more by land.
UN agencies are having to cut food rations for refugees and displaced people by up to half in parts of the Sahel, for example, due to a massive funding shortfall. Before the war, Ukraine exported 98% of its cereals and oilseed via the Black Sea, at a rate of up to six-million tonnes a month. Typically, only a fraction of its exports went by rail, where transport costs are higher.
According to a UN food agency official, nearly 25-million tonnes of grain were stuck in Ukraine as of early May due to infrastructure challenges and the naval blockade. As prices surge, UN agencies are having to cut food rations for refugees and displaced people by up to half in parts of the Sahel, for example, due to a huge funding shortfall.
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