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Not many organizations can claim to have saved a billion lives. But CGIAR’s crop breeding work has been credited with doing just that. Its research catalyzed the Green Revolution by developing high-yielding wheat and rice varieties, mostly for Asia, where starvation loomed. But today’s challenges cannot be overcome using the same approaches that delivered those life-saving varieties. Poverty, food and nutrition

G7 warns Russia-Ukraine war is stoking global food crisis (NBC News) NBC News presenter Joshua Johnson produced a streaming program on the effects the Russia-Ukraine war could have on global food concerns. Johnson said, according to IFPRI, Russia and Ukraine export 12 percent of the world’s food calories. The program is available on Peacock and on YouTube.  

How does the war in Ukraine impact the global food supply? (BBC Radio) BBC Radio produced a program that stated the Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased the possibility of global food insecurity. Most developing countries can’t cushion the blow. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said the war itself came at a bad time due to droughts that reduced stock, prices were already

CNN published an article on how Russia’s war in Ukraine could push up to 49 million people into famine or famine-like conditions because of its devastating impact on global food supply and prices, the United Nations has said, in the latest dire warning over food insecurity. Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports has already raised global food prices and threatens to cause a

West needs to act fast to tackle food crisis — and Moscow’s blame game (Financial Times)  Financial Times published an op-ed stating that G7 countries will outline global initiatives this month to help prevent hunger as Russia weighs on grain importers. After a meeting with Vladimir Putin last week, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, also chair of the African Union, called for the lifting

Fertilizer woes plant seeds of doubt beyond food (Reuters Reuters published an article on fertilizer prices. Fertilizer shortages due to the war in Ukraine are hitting more than just food costs. On Wednesday lawn-care firm Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG.N) issued a sales and profit warning as higher commodity costs continued to squeeze margins. It’s a warning of pain being spread across industries. A surge

Much of the early attention on the Russian-Ukraine conflict’s food security impacts has been concentrated on countries highly dependent on wheat imports from the Black Sea region. Given the important role that wheat products play in the diets of people in Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and other countries, the interruption in Black Sea wheat trade and high prices have raised serious concerns about rising

The World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference (WTO MC12) takes place June 12-15 in Geneva—two years after the pandemic forced members to postpone its original schedule. In those two years, the world has changed and the importance of multilateral approaches to tackle international trade issues has become even more acute. The Russia-Ukraine war has highlighted a variety of unresolved trade