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Food insecurity is endemic in Malawi, affecting up to 38% of the population every year in the run-up to the harvest in April. Although geographically distant, there are multiple channels through which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can make matters worse this year. The conflict has disrupted global supplies of key cereals, vegetable oils, and fertilizers, pushing already-high prices higher, and putting particular

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Grain and input prices were high even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the uncertainty it adds will likely keep prices high until at least the summer of 2023, and it may be 2024 until they go to pre-invasion levels, a prominent agricultural economist and trade expert says. “Here we are again,” said Joe Glauber,

Vegetable oil prices have surged over the last few months, as the war in Ukraine drove up their already rising costs. Why it matters: The situation is worse now. Indonesia said it would suspend exports of palm oil this week, sending markets for cooking oils into chaos, as Bloomberg reported. The country is the world’s largest supplier of the commodity,

However Muslims break their fast this Ramadan, they’re probably paying more for it than last year. Some of the reasons are the same everywhere. Shockwaves from the war in Ukraine, for one. But in economics, there’s rarely just one reason for anything. Here’s what’s raising the cost of five iftar dishes in five countries.

With surging global commodity prices, a food supply crisis is looming large, especially in several Middle Eastern and North African nations, experts have said. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has a “profound impact” on international commodity prices, given the two countries’ important roles in global grain market, Desmond Lachman, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former

The war in Ukraine was barely a month old when Augusto Bassanini, chief executive of United Grain Corp., received an unusual signal from the global wheat market. The Washington-based grain exporter, owned by Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co., normally routes its products across the Pacific Ocean to Asia. In March, though, an Egyptian importer that hadn’t done business

The war in Ukraine has pushed prices of agricultural products to historically high levels, and concerns about global food security occupy headlines and world leaders’ minds, as demonstrated by recent IMF and World Bank meetings. So far, much of the attention has focused on grains, particularly wheat—because of its importance in diets, and the predicament of countries where wheat accounts for

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused a ripple effect across the world, worsening the global food crisis. Since Feb. 24, the war has caused a disturbance to the world’s supply chains by driving up the cost of fuel and creating a scarcity of grains and fertilizer. “2022 is likely to be the worst year from a food crisis and global