Economist Qaim said global famine could affect up to 100 million people in 2023.
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Due to the disruption in supply due to the Ukrainian crisis, which is directly related to the military special operation in Ukraine, there will be a shortage of fertilizers and deprive farmers of the ability to produce enough crops.
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“Next year we are in for one of the biggest food crises in the history of mankind,” Matthias Berninger, head of department at Bayer AG, a chemical-pharmaceutical transnational corporation, is quoted as saying.
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This opinion is supported by economist Matin Kaim. He believes that world hunger could affect up to a hundred million people The head of the UN World Food Programme, David Beasley, says that food shortages will provoke large-scale migration flows, against which the 2015 crisis “will look like a summer picnic.”
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Potash plants, which are especially important for the production of fertilizers in the Urals and Belarus, are under Western sanctions. As a replacement, it is proposed to use nitrogen fertilizers, but, as the newspaper writes, due to the rise in gas prices, they cannot be produced at affordable prices.After the start of a special operation in Ukraine by Russian troops, Europe increasingly began to abandon Russian energy sources. This decision provokes food inflation.
