Lebanon has the world's highest food inflation. So a ship stocked with corn for animal feed isn't a solution for its woes or those in other countries where people are going hungry. But the shipment from a Ukrainian Black Sea port is offering hope.
Three more ships departed Friday, heading to Turkey, Ireland and the United Kingdom. All the ships that have departed so far had been stuck there since the war began nearly six months ago.
and even longer to see the effects on high food prices, said Shaun Ferris, a Kenya-based adviser on agriculture and markets for Catholic Relief Services, a partner in World Food Program distributions.as Somalia and neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya face the worst drought in four decades. Survivors have described burying their children as they fled to camps where little assistance could be found.
“Ukraine is not a charity,” he said. “It will be looking to get the best deals on the market” to maintain its own fragile economy. In Lebanon, where humanitarian aid group Mercy Corps says the price of wheat flour has risen by more than 200% since the start of Russia’s war, people stood in long, often tense lines outside bakeries for subsidized bread in recent days., a temporary solution of six to nine months before it could be forced to lift subsidies on bread altogether.who fled a civil war across the border face stigmatization and discrimination trying to buy bread.
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