The war in Ukraine already affects food security in Africa and the Middle East.

Rome, 17 March After the Russian invasion, the impact of the Ukrainian conflict has already affected the Middle East and North Africa region and will continue to spread rapidly, Rome said The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), based in Japan, warned today. Rising food prices and crop shortages due to conflict have already been felt in the Middle East and North Africa, and have spread to the world's most vulnerable countries, including the Horn of Africa, where the poorest people are most at risk, and countries The government explained it in a memo. IFAD said that “a quarter of the world's wheat exports come from Russia and Ukraine,” adding that “40% of Ukrainian wheat and corn are already suffering from hunger problems, and food shortages and rising prices have caused what Millions of people are being exported to the Middle East and Africa, where there is a risk of falling into poverty.” I remembered He also explained that “Russia is the world's largest producer of fertilizer, and food prices have risen by about 30% due to rising prices last year even before the conflict.” “I believe that the bitter conflict in Ukraine, which has already become a disaster for those directly involved, is a tragedy for the world's poorest people living in rural areas, unable to absorb the price increase in basic food and agricultural inputs We are deeply concerned about this,” said IFAD President Gilbert F. Kennedy. “We are already seeing an increase in prices, which can lead to an increase in hunger and poverty and have serious consequences for global stability,” he added. For example, he pointed out that in Somalia, where about 3.8 million people are already unable to ensure food safety, electricity and transportation costs have skyrocketed due to rising fuel prices. In Egypt, the price of wheat and sunflower oil skyrocketed, as Russia and Ukraine relied on 85% of wheat supplies and 73% of sunflower oil. In Lebanon, 22% of households do not have food security, and food shortages and rising price increases exacerbate an already hopeless situation. We import up to 80% of wheat from Russia and Ukraine, but the explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020 will allow us to save the harvest for about a month at a time.