“The country’s food supply chain is collapsing,” warned Jakob Kern, WFP’s emergency coordinator for Ukraine, in statements made during a video call to the press and released by the Bloomberg agency.
Kern stated that the World Food Program is “concerned about the effect of the conflict on global food security”; in addition to the situation in cities like Mariupol where food and water supplies are running out, and aid cannot enter because they are surrounded by Russian forces.
Before the war, the UN humanitarian program that distributes food in emergency and famine situations bought about half of its wheat stock from Ukraine. According to a WFP report, the program has already distributed 55,000 million tons of food in Ukraine as assistance against the war.
“The increases in international food prices generated by the conflict, once transferred to domestic markets, will limit people’s access to food,” they warned.
They also pointed out that the countries that will be most affected are those that depend the most on Ukrainian wheat, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria and Yemen, as well as Egypt, a country that imports grain from both Russia and Ukraine.
The very increases in food and fuel will mean that the UN program will need an additional US$71 million per month to pay for itself, according to UN agency estimates.
Source: Ambito
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