Russia is disrupting food prices worldwide and it could cause civil unrest — it's happened before
to the food market triggered riots in countries like Haiti, Bangladesh, and Mozambique.
"I think that the prices of food mobilized people," Rami Zurayk, an agronomy professor at the American University of Beirut,In Syria, for instance, drought disrupted food production in the late 2000s. Poverty and food insecurity shot up in the country, and"the social unrest that had been simmering for a while in rural areas erupted into riots," Giulia Soffiantini, a researcher for thein 2020.
Civil unrest is one likely outcome of the impending food crisis, Fordham said, in addition to leaders becoming more unpopular, crime, increased health and malnutrition, especially for populations in countries that are at most risk. And she says that this is going to have a powerful impact on how people view their governments and leaders.
Tensions began in the 1700s in France, when the crown deregulated the domestic grain trade — meaning sellers were free to increase prices as they wished. That deregulation, among other factors such as a huge rise in population, contributed to food shortages and high costs. In April and May of 1775, at least 300 riots and expeditions occurred in the span of three weeks, in what was coined the"Flour War.
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