The observation has already been made several times since the start of the war in Ukraine: with the invasion of the breadbasket of the Mediterranean and the sanctions imposed by a fertilizer-exporting country, it is the food security of a good part of the world which is shaken, including in the medium term.

The subject came back to the table during a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

And as often, Western countries have united.

Vladimir Putin “created this global food crisis”

Russian President “Vladimir Putin started this war.

He created this global food crisis.

And he is the one who can stop it, ”hammered the number two of American diplomacy Wendy Sherman.

For the Deputy Secretary of State, “Russia and President Putin alone bear the responsibility for having waged war on Ukraine and for the consequences of this war on world food security”.

French Ambassador to the UN Nicolas de Rivière drove the point home: “Russia's aggression against Ukraine increases the risk of famine throughout the world.

People in developing countries are the first to be affected”.

And, said the French diplomat, “Russia will certainly try to make us believe that it is the sanctions adopted against it that are unbalancing global food security”.

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya says the conflict in Ukraine "threatens to make things even worse for the biggest humanitarian crises on the planet, such as in Afghanistan, Yemen and the rest of the world." the Horn of Africa”.

Grain shortages likely to cause food riots are feared in the Middle East and North Africa.

Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh or Nigeria, highly populated countries, are the main importers of cereals from Russia and Ukraine.

The director of the World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, and Wendy Sherman recalled that Ukraine and Russia were "major producers" of cereals, representing "30% of world wheat exports, 20% of world corn and 75% sunflower oil”.

“50% of the cereals we buy come from Ukraine and we fed 125 million people” before the war, underlined David Beasley, warning of the “devastating” impact that the crisis will have on WFP operations.

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