These Countries Face Unprecedented Hunger Crises Due To The Ukraine War (Turkey, Egypt & Kenya)

Nation And State ^ | 3-4-2022

[blam]

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.

[I got the rope]

Oh great. That’s all we need is more turks around the world.

[dforest]

I have been hearing of coming food shortages for far longer than this war.

[Steven Tyler]

A lot more countries are reliant on Russian potash and other fertilizer raw materials, just sayin

[Chad C. Mulligan]

All part of the plan.

[piroque]

Not only food but other commodities across the globe.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/aluminium-hits-record-top-oil-wheat-at-multi-year-highs-on-supply-woes_4314106.html/?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily&slsuccess=1

[Travis McGee]

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Add to this the predicted 75% shortfall in ammonia fertilizer than American farmers are facing due to the Left’s Green New Deal.

[delapaz]

Wait, all of these countries are not self-sufficient in food? what happened?

[hardspunned]

When the Russian nitrates for fertilizer dries up, you can add the US to that list.

[hardspunned]

I just tilled my little garden (1/4 acre) yesterday. I’m heading to Southern States feed store today for seed and 100 pounds of fertilizer. If there is any fertilizer to be had, I wonder how staggering the price increase will be?

[Does so]

Egypt isn’t NATO. They have airpower that could be brought to bear on Russian armored vehicle backups in Ukraine.

[fishtank]

Wow. That second one is so true…..

How did the James Bond movies end up being so prophetic about the appearance of their villains?

No sarc….

[Dixie Yooper]

Wait, all of these countries are not self-sufficient in food? what happened?

3 countries that have been around long enough to know better.

[jmacusa]

Corruption. Decades of it. With the UN, UNICEF and all the other ‘’relief’’ rackets that make these Third World s**t holes dependent on imports while paying off the ruling elites instead of making their own societies self sufficient.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Russian potash***

Maybe now we can reopen the potash mines in Carlsbad NM!

[Reno89519]

Meanwhile, back in the US...

Focus, please. We need to clean up and help our own country, secure our borders, evict illegals, help our own citizens.

[AZJeep]

America could supply a lot of those, if permitted.
However the environmental lobby would fight that, even if we have to starve to death.

[tlozo]

Disruption of Ukrainian wheat supplies may prove doubly painful for countries already squeezed by food insecurity.

By the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thanks Putin.

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 03/04/2022, thanks blam.

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