Empty shelves. File photoMOSCOW, April 1The sanctions that the Western countries have adopted against Russia can cause a serious aggravation of the problem of world hunger, including due to the fact that domestic exporters of fertilizers and grain will have difficulties with logistics routes and financing schemes, the director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti Dmitry Razumovsky. According to the USDA, Ukraine and Russia together account for nearly 30 percent of world wheat exports and are important «granaries» in the world. Disruptions in the supply chain caused by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have led to a reduction in the supply of the market and sharp fluctuations in food prices around the world.
"In Latin America today, the events in Ukraine are being discussed primarily from the point of view of the threat of a food crisis and even famine, which the continent and all the developing countries of the world will face in the next six months. Western countries should be aware that by their actions they can provoke an aggravation of the problem of world hunger, cutting off Russian producers from logistics routes and financing schemes, including exporters of fertilizers and grain, in which our country has long been one of the world leaders,» he said. .
The situation, according to him, is aggravated by the fact that many regions of the world, including, for example, Brazil, have been hit hard by drought and, as a result, crop failure. .jpg» />There are many spectacles, bread is not enough. Are hunger riots threatening the world «The forecasts for Brazil, as for all of Latin America, are truly frightening — the appearance in the near future of tens of millions of starving people,» the expert notes. At the same time, he has no doubt that «if anti-Russian sanctions are not lifted , then in the future, the negative effects of the global food crisis, following the developing countries, will be felt to one degree or another by all states. really threatening with unpredictable consequences and aggravation of the global food crisis,» Razumovsky concluded. The West is losing the basis of its power