The world’s breadbasket is cracking. Ukrainian land is being shattered by bombs, its sea ports disrupted by blockades, and its working-age population increasingly focused on burying enemy soldiers instead of seeds.
The ripple effects of this will hit the world’s poor the hardest, with high wheat-importing regions like North Africa especially vulnerable.
Food prices were already high. Now, two countries that produce more than one-quarter of the world’s wheat are at war, and one crisis is compounding another.
With Ukraine under attack, Russia sanctioned, energy prices soaring and inflation blowing up the cost of other commodities, it’s a metastasizing series of
