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People’s Daily Online (China) published an article stating that the issue of global food security has attracted attention. According to data released by IFPR), as of May 28, more than 20 countries around the world have implemented export restrictions on grains, including wheat, corn, flour, tomatoes, vegetable oils, beans, etc. 

Epoch Times published an article on how countries are resorting to “panic” protectionism after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some countries are restricting food exports amid food supply disruptions, as seen in the past, with the number growing from 3 to 16 as of early April, according to IFPRI  (See IFPRI blog post, From bad to worse: […]

NPR published a transcript on a segment of its radio show, Morning Edition stating that Kansas is known for its fields of waist-high golden wheat. But this year, the blistering conditions have withered some of the crops into short, patchy straw. Standing in one of his fields in northwest Kansas, Chris Tanner wonders if it’ll […]

Movies Online published an article on the global food crisis. The article goes into detail about export restrictions that many countries are placing on markets in their own countries. India has placed some export restrictions in place. Division director Paul Dorosh (DSDG) said if India imposes strict restrictions on rice exports, it will be disastrous. […]

Daily Wire writes in an article that Russia is reportedly preventing grain shipments from leaving Ukraine, threatening much of the world with starvation. According to IFPRI, Russia and Ukraine produce a combined 30 percent of the world’s traded wheat. As Russia blockades the Black Sea with ships and sea mines, thereby preventing Ukrainian exports, some Western […]

Hank Yung.com published an article on the worldwide shortage of sunflower oil due to the war in Ukraine. Cooling oil prices are soaring higher than grain. According to IFPRI, cheap palm oil accounted for 58 percent of the share of vegetable oil traded in the global market between 2019 and 2021. It was followed by […]

Al Jazeera published an article on how India balances its domestic needs and its exports of rice could prove the difference between food security & hunger for millions. Paul Dorosh, Division Director (Development Strategy and Governance Division) said, “If India imposes serious restrictions on rice exports, it would be pretty devastating, especially for some of the […]

Newsweek published an article stating that countries for months have been hoarding fertilizer—and now they are weaponizing it, making sales in return for geopolitical favors. Fertilizers and food shortages have pushed many countries to issue export bans to protect their countries. India, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine have prohibited wheat exports. According to IFPRI, […]

California 18 published an article on how Russia has put the world in danger of famine with the blockade of grain exports from Ukraine and the restrictions on its own shipments. “Now we have to go around Europe to return to the Mediterranean. That has really added a huge cost to Ukrainian grain,” said senior […]

News Quest (Korea) published an article that states 45 out of a total of 57 export restriction cases occurred after the Ukrainian War with hikes of 45 percent for grain, 30 percent for oil, and an 80 percent fertilizer price hike. “We need to build a food supply chain.” According to IFPRI on the 9th, 20 countries, […]

Chosun published an article about the new report by the International Trade Research Institute of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) cited data from IFPRI in a report titled ‘Supply Chain Disturbances and Effects of Food Export Restrictions Measures’ on the 20th. 57 cases were reported. Looking at the details of the measures, 42 cases […]

Japan Times published an article stating that Putin claims it is Western selfishness and sanctions are to blame for the current food crisis that is driving up prices — not Russia’s invasion of one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, maize and sunflower oil. According to senior research fellow David Laborde, land routes are […]

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KITA produced a video on how due to the Ukraine-Russia war, a global food crisis is on the horizon. The video quoted from IFPRI research saying that so far this year countries around the world have banned exports of more than 50 food and fertilizer products (See IFPRI tool, Food & Fertilizer Export Restrictions Tracker) […]

Reason published an article stating that the world is on the verge of a global food crisis of unprecedented portions. If there’s enough food to go around, why has the global trend toward lower levels of hunger recently reversed? Senior research fellow David Laborde said, “As of today, the world has no global shortage of […]

Associated Press (London) published an article on how grain is not leaving the Black Sea Region, threatening shortages, hunger, and political instability in developing countries.  This means food is even farther from those that need it. Senior research fellow Joseph Glauber said, “Now you have to go all the way around Europe to come back […]