She stated this in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.
Schulze said that food prices in the world have increased by a third, they are at a record level.
She added that, according to the World Food Program, 300 million people in the world suffer from hunger and this number is increasing.
“The message is this: we are facing the worst famine since the Second World War and millions of victims,” TASS quoted her as saying.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the conflict in Ukraine is a silent attack on developing countries, which threatens to impoverish 1.7 billion inhabitants of the Earth.
Parveen Ngala, a representative of the humanitarian organization Oxfam International, told RT that due to rising grain and oil prices, more than 21 million people in several African countries were on the verge of starvation.