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Russia's invasion of Ukraine dramatically escalated what was already projected to be record levels of food insecurity in the ...

David Beasley, director of the UN food program, said that food riots and destabilization in Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Pakistan ...

But Russia's invasion of Ukraine has toppled this complex system, triggering a cascade of shortages and price increases. That ...

Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley and more than 70 percent of its sunflower oil.

As the war, in its fourth month now, is still raging in Ukraine’s east with no political solution on the horizon, the United Nations and ... a cost-of-living crisis with food and energy prices ...

With the world "marching towards starvation," said David Beasley, "the best thing we can do right now is end that damn war in Russia and Ukraine and get the port open" in Odesa.

A food crisis putting nearly 50 million ... to suffer even more because of this war," he added. The World Food Programme, a branch of the United Nations, serves about 140 million people, according ...

Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70% of its sunflower oil and ...

Marking 100 days since Russia invaded its neighbor, the UN crisis coordinator ... community to find ways to get food out of Ukraine by land or sea while the war rages. “Realistically though ...

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more ...

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the "breadbasket of the world" and making food more ...