Oleg Kobyakov, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) office for communication with the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, June 9The food crisis in the world is obvious, it did not start yesterday, the pace of hunger has been growing for the past 6 years, and the Ukrainian events have only exacerbated it, said Oleg Kobyakov, director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) office for relations with Russia. did not start yesterday, for the past six years the rate of hunger has been growing at about ten million people a year,» Kobyakov said at the Valdai Discussion Club during a discussion on the global food crisis.
The Kremlin reported the absence of agreements on the supply of grain to the WestAccording to him, the Ukrainian crisis aggravated the situation, but is not the root cause of the crisis. «Ukrainian grain stuck in the Black Sea ports is, on the one hand, 0.2% of the total grain production in the world «Or is it less than 1% of the grain circulating on the world international market, that is, not consumed domestically. This volume last year was about 470 million tons. But this amount has already been chartered, paid, and expected by consumers,» Kobyakov said. According to him, the non-receipt of this grain at the places of consumption causes price increases in consumer countries and fears related to future grain supplies. A number of Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation due to the situation in Ukraine. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of sanctions against the Russian Federation, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of famine in certain countries. Earlier, the head of the African Union and President of Senegal, Macky Sall, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that anti-Russian sanctions The West deprived African countries of access to grain and fertilizers, which aggravated the situation in the food sector, it is necessary to remove grain and fertilizers from sanctions. called the accusations of Russia in the food crisis hypocrisy
