The world is facing a food crisis: countries like Egypt, Yemen or Somalia are heavily dependent on imports from Russia and Ukraine. Development Minister Schulze calls for more coordination.
As a reaction to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, German Development Minister Svenja Schulze wants to campaign for the creation of an alliance for global food security at the World Bank conference in Washington.
“Our goal must be to save millions of people from starvation,” said the SPD politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “I will work in Washington to ensure that we coordinate our efforts to combat the food crisis more closely – among donors, but also with international organizations and everyone else who wants to get involved,” said Schulze. According to the information, the model should be the Covax initiative, which aims to ensure fair access to corona vaccines worldwide.
The development minister warned that Russia’s war of aggression would have dramatic consequences far beyond Ukraine. “The worst global food crisis in recent decades is looming, and it will hit the poorest in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in particular.” Russia and Ukraine together account for about 20 percent of corn exports and 30 percent of wheat exports worldwide, according to a working paper from the Ministry of Development, according to the paper. Countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan are particularly dependent on imports.
Source: Stern
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