The war in Ukraine threatens the world with unprecedented hunger. Even with a deal in place to get Ukraine's food exports moving, serious weaknesses in the global food system would remain. Can anything be done to prevent future crises?
00:00 - The emerging global food crisis
00:31 - Why is mass hunger on the rise?
02:26 - The impact of energy price rises
03:46 - The food crisis in Tunisia
05:06 - How hunger is driving increased civil unrest
07:06 - Export bans and stockpiling can do more harm than good
09:09 - Why global food crises will keep happening
Find all of our coverage on the war in Ukraine: https://econ.st/3AZyEmO
Read our briefing about the coming of the food crisis: https://econ.st/3O5OpM2
How the conflict in Ukraine propelled mass hunger: https://econ.st/3uM4ZcI
Why is global hunger accelerating after years of decline: https://econ.st/3ICVLoV
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What impact does hoarding and controls on food exports have? https://econ.st/3aKLr1A
00:00 - The emerging global food crisis
00:31 - Why is mass hunger on the rise?
02:26 - The impact of energy price rises
03:46 - The food crisis in Tunisia
05:06 - How hunger is driving increased civil unrest
07:06 - Export bans and stockpiling can do more harm than good
09:09 - Why global food crises will keep happening
Find all of our coverage on the war in Ukraine: https://econ.st/3AZyEmO
Read our briefing about the coming of the food crisis: https://econ.st/3O5OpM2
How the conflict in Ukraine propelled mass hunger: https://econ.st/3uM4ZcI
Why is global hunger accelerating after years of decline: https://econ.st/3ICVLoV
Sign up to our daily World in Brief newsletter: https://econ.st/3P6SGQE
Read our report on civil unrest and price hikes: https://econ.st/3z53Wao
Watch The Economist’s experts consider the consequences of an emerging global food crisis after war broke out in Ukraine: https://econ.st/3IEq7aT
What impact does hoarding and controls on food exports have? https://econ.st/3aKLr1A
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The food supply chain and logistics was already affected by the pandemic when a sum of factors this year are driving us to a possible dark future. Droughts, flooding, harvests lost, and the Ukraine conflict (with Ukraine and Russia moving a huge percentage of agricultural commodities, now stopped or with delays) means food prices are raising every week, and countries depending on cereals are more prone to get problems. It means North Africa and Middle East, for instance, with all the political ramifications. It means African countries which are importing cereals and other food products and which have now to check what can they do with their own harvests. It means poorer countries will suffer famine, either because they can't afford to pay higher prices or because there is no import of any food, while developed countries will have to learn to live leaner, with less products in supermarkets, more expensive, and which will contribute to more lack of trust onto politicians and institutions. The future may be worse than we expected. There is already civil unrest in some countries, and as we know, panic spreads easily. We hope, at least, that we can come off this together and the damage is minimised as much as possible, and that these predictions don't come true at that extent.