June 20th, 2022
Via Farmland Grab, a report on a MoU signed between Sudan and the UAE for a large farm project: Sudan recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Arab Emirates for a large agricultural project linked by a road to a new port to be built on the Red Sea, the Sudanese Finance […]
Read more »Fish Fights: Saving Fish Stocks Can Build Peace
June 8th, 2022
Via WWF, commentary on how fish and fisheries are frequently at the center of conflict, and how saving fish stocks can build peace: Imagine a future where people and countries are fighting over fish. Communities, together made up of hundreds of millions of people, have lost sources of food and income because the climate crisis has […]
Read more »June 4th, 2022
Via NASA, an article on how climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030, according to a new NASA study: Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, according to a new NASA study published […]
Read more »Russia’s War On Global Food Security
June 2nd, 2022
Via The Atlantic Council, a report on the global food security impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine: Russia has blocked and mined all of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and hindered nearly all of Ukraine’s exports, notably of grain. Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports may cause starvation of up to 47 million people. Opening Ukraine’s […]
Read more »May 24th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on global leaders’ accusations that Russia is using Ukraine’s food supply as a weapon: Fears of a global food crisis are swelling as a Russian blockade of Ukrainian seaports and attacks on its grain warehouses have choked off one of the world’s breadbaskets, deepening fears that President […]
Read more »The Coming Food Catastrophe
May 22nd, 2022
Courtesy of The Economist, commentary on how war is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger Vladimir Putin will destroy the lives of people far from the battlefield—and on a scale even he may regret. The war is battering a global food system weakened by covid-19, climate change and an energy shock. Ukraine’s exports of grain and oilseeds have mostly stopped […]
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