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Loty Diop

Loty Diop is a Senior Research Analyst in the Nutrition, Health, and Diets Unit, based in Dakar, Senegal, where she works on projects that tackle food security and acute malnutrition. These projects involve assessing the nutritional status and micronutrient adequacy of the diets of vulnerable populations, as well as conducting in-depth analyses of the food environment.

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Why Is Russia blocking Ukraine’s food exports? (CSIS) 

September 19, 2023


A short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Caitlin Welsh on her Critical Questions publication with Joe Glauber (IFPRI) and Emma Dodd (CSIS), “Why Is Russia Blocking Ukraine’s Food Exports?”

“Russia’s termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BGSI) will be a main topic of discussion in United Nations General Assembly meetings next week. The United Nations and others continue to urge Russia to rejoin the deal, while Russia declares its willingness to rejoin if its demands are met. It likely has no such intention. Continuing to block Ukraine’s agricultural exports is in Russia’s economic and political interest while Russia manipulates its own food exports to appease food-importing countries. And its exit from the deal has not contributed to a global food price spike—for now.”

Read more and listen to the audio brief