The Food and Agriculture Organization's index showed that prices of food commodities in March busted the record set the month before.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization declared Friday that"supporting agricultural resilience in Ukraine and around the world has never been more important to avert a global food crisis" and reported that food commodity prices just hit their highest levels ever.
The reverberations of such disruptions, which come amid existing conflicts and the Covid-19 pandemic, fall widely and with disastrous consequences for global hunger and malnutrition. Ukraine and Russia together provide around 30% and 20% of global wheat and maize exports, respectively; they account together for about 80% of global sunflower exports.Jakob Kern, U.N. World Food Program emergency coordinator for the Ukraine crisis, last month.
Formally called the Coordination Committee of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism for relations with the CFS, the group expressed"a sense of extraordinary urgency" in an open"The alarming situation requires an immediate, sound, inclusive, effective, and globally coordinated policy response for the short-, mid-, and long-term," the letter states.
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