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War in Ukraine: geostrategic turning point in the world food plan?

A wheat warehouse in the village of Luky, western Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. © AP - Nariman El-Mofty

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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Russia, Ukraine and around the Black Sea have been a strategic breadbasket since antiquity, one of the original basins of agriculture... and climate change promises to be favorable to agricultural production in these regions.

In the meantime, the invasion of Ukraine begun by Russia in February 2022 and which is likely to last is making its effects felt, which are added to those deleterious of the pandemic and its impact on international trade, not to mention decimated families.

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Agricultural impacts therefore, some immediate and local and some long-lasting and global.

Rising raw material prices, rising fertilizer prices.

The price of oil multiplied by four in two years, that of gas by ten over the same period, wheat by two and a half.

Commodity prices are soaring at record speed and the world finds itself once again at the mercy of their vast oscillations.

A surge that also reflects growing financialization and complete deregulation that began forty years ago. 

Guests:

  • From Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Kako Nubukpo, commissioner in charge of agriculture, water resources and the environment of the West African Economic and Monetary Union.  

  • Jean Jacques Hervé, President of the French Academy of Agriculture.

    Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences 

  • Matthieu Brun, scientific director of the Foundation for Agriculture and Rurality in the World, FARM, associate researcher at Sciences Po Bordeaux.

    “

    The Demeter 2022 Food: the new frontiers

    ”.

    Edition Club Demeter and IRIS.  

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