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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorld Food Program director on Al Jazeera English.
Cutting food rations to many African nations by 50 percent, due to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Not good.
Hunger makes people do crazy things.
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World Food Program director on Al Jazeera English. (Original Post)
roamer65
Mar 2022
OP
Yup. And we can't increase wheat production by much in North America this year.
roamer65
Mar 2022
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elleng
(130,156 posts)1. and this will get worse; Ukraine planting season hampered by war.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)2. Yup. And we can't increase wheat production by much in North America this year.
75-80 percent of our crop is winter wheat, which was planted fall of last year.
We would not see a larger crop until Summer 2023.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)3. Someone needs to remove putrid!
Emrys
(7,188 posts)4. I caught an interview with him on UK Channel 4 News
Here it is. IIRC, he said they'd already had to cut rations by 50 per cent in many places, even before Ukraine blew up. I don't envy his job.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57448267
Link to tweet
Channel 4 News
@Channel4News
You're taking the breadbasket of the world and shutting it down, it is not just going to affect the people of Ukraine.
@WFPChief tells @krishgm the Ukraine war will impact food supplies, adding no child should die from starvation".
https://www.channel4.com/news/youre-asking-me-to-choose-which-children-live-and-which-children-die-says-wfp-head
Emrys
(7,188 posts)5. Here's a better link with the video embedded:
Link to tweet
Channel 4 News
@Channel4News
"Youre asking me to choose which children live and which children die."
The head of the World Food Programme (@WFPChief) tells @krishgm that $600 million is needed to tackle the food crisis in Ukraine for three months - saying "no child should die from starvation."
[Twitter video]
@Channel4News
"Youre asking me to choose which children live and which children die."
The head of the World Food Programme (@WFPChief) tells @krishgm that $600 million is needed to tackle the food crisis in Ukraine for three months - saying "no child should die from starvation."
[Twitter video]