MOSCOW The global food crisis is a result of the West’s “predatory policies,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “The West is provoking a global food crisis … The cost of food on the world market has returned to the levels of the beginning of the year, but it is sill 40% higher than in 2020,” Putin said at a meeting in Sochi on Russia’s agriculture sector. He said the global food crisis was triggered by developed countries with […]
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The war in Ukraine has demonstrated how international efforts to counter Russia are severely hamstrung by an uncomfortable reality: Isolating the Kremlin comes with a cost in the form of massive risks to global food security. The sanctions regime against Russia has disrupted the food supply chain. As the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II rages — and as it likely will for at least several more months — there is an urgency to minimise its effects on the […]
