UN FOOD CHIEF: World Food Programme flags famine risk in Africa and the Middle East as Ukraine war hits supplies.

The head of the world’s biggest food aid agency has a stark warning for European leaders: Pay more now to stave off global hunger or suffer a migration crisis later.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has sent a shockwave through international food markets, worsening the already dire problem of global hunger by disrupting supply and inflating prices.

That risks tipping the poorest, most famine-ravaged regions of the planet into political chaos and creating an unprecedented migration crisis, according to David Beasley, the World Food Programme’s executive director.

In an interview with POLITICO, Beasley warned that Europe must donate more funding urgently or it will bear the brunt of the fallout.

“We’re billions short,” he said. “Failure to provide this year a few extra billion dollars means you’re going to have famine, destabilization and mass migration.”

Beasley’s intervention will sharpen minds as EU governments draw up plans to address the food crisis resulting from the war, with a proposal expected as early as Wednesday.

Russia and Ukraine are among the world’s biggest producers and exporters of grain. The disruption caused by the war has a direct impact on countries that rely on these supplies in the Middle East and Africa.

Half of Africa’s wheat imports come from Ukraine and Russia, which is also a major fertilizer exporter. As for Ukraine, its exports have ground to a halt and its capacity to keep growing food this year is hanging by a thread. The crunch point will come in the fall, Beasley said, when the full impact of the war’s disruption is likely to be felt.

“If you think we’ve got hell on earth now, you just get ready,” Beasley warned. “If we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa’s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, the middle East is coming to Europe.”

The economic conditions facing these parts of the world are now worse than they were in the run-up to the Arab Spring, he said. And it’s not just the populations of Middle Eastern and North African countries who will feel the squeeze.

The WFP is already feeding millions of people further south in Sahel countries like Niger and Burkina Faso, where problems will worsen if global food prices stay sky high. “I’ve been warning our developed nations for several years now that the Sahel is going to collapse if we’re not careful,” he said.

Beasley is on an urgent fundraising mission to Brussels, where he held talks with two EU commissioners on Tuesday. If the food crisis spins out of control and the world faces critical supply shortages, the rich West will not be spared from political unrest.

“What do you think is going to happen in Paris and Chicago and Brussels when there’s not enough food?” he said, speaking in the sumptuous surroundings of Belgium’s Royal Fine Arts Museum, where the EU held a major humanitarian conference this week. “It’s easy to sit on your high horse in your ivory tower when you’re not the one starving.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/world-food-programme-eu-fund-us-food-aid-ukraine-russia/amp/

Africa the corrupt continent....
Nigerians that keep hyping Putin's invasion will surely feel the heat..

It's going round..it's just a matter of time..
Well they are used to suffering and smiling so that's a good one..
By the time Putin's puppet experience food shortage for a month they will get to understand the calamity Putin brought upon them..

Nigerians have been in hell since 2015

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Africa the corrupt continent....

Corrupt and populated with the most selfish human beings on planet earth

Maize farmers bracing up for mad profits!

SeeThisLoser:


Corrupt and populated with the most selfish human beings on planet earth

Look how they will never agree with me...well that's their issue.. Africans are used to their bad leaders so..
Enjoy..I hope you are doing great?

Massive land with nothing to show for it.
Naija.
This news no supposed concern us.

This people don't have any idea what hell is. They should come to Nigeria and experience Buhari's government. The name Buhari is a synonym for hell fire.

American Farmers are already crying, the first rain dropped but they are short of fertilizers. These sanctions are just stupid. They are going to affect everyone in the world.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Africa the corrupt continent....
Nigerians that keep hyping Putin's invasion will surely feel the heat..

It's going round..it's just a matter of time..
Well they are used to suffering and smiling so that's a good one..
By the time Putin's puppet experience food shortage for a month they will get to understand the calamity Putin brought upon them..

can't be worse than 7 years of Buhari rule

AJSfan:
can't be worse than 7 years of Buhari rule

Who?

Uprightness100:
Except you wanna Deceive yourself, it is clear to all that we are in Last of the Last Moments of the Endtimes,

The World is falling apart into Scenes,
Endtimes Prophecies is Jumping off the pages of the Bible,

It's like we are Walking through the Pages of the Bible.

One of these days there will be a Shoout From Heaven which will shake the earth and its Inhabitants to its Foundation.

Folks!JESUS is Coming Quickly ! Settle the Matter of your relationship with GOD to avoid had I known.

Same thing false alarmists said in WW1 and WW2. Keep it up.

Na waoh. Wetin poor countries of Africa and Asia go do like this when they still await for handout from the West.

Some countries are already helping out their residents to mitigate inflation, but Africa is still waiting for handouts from USA, UK, Canada e.t.c

The West do really take care of their citizens. No wonder the post of OP limited the famine to Africa and Asia.

I think it's time Europe and America starts taking care of their own. They should let the begging leaders of Africa and Asia think and use their brains for once in their lives.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Africa the corrupt continent....
Nigerians that keep hyping Putin's invasion will surely feel the heat..

It's going round..it's just a matter of time..
Well they are used to suffering and smiling so that's a good one..
By the time Putin's puppet experience food shortage for a month they will get to understand the calamity Putin brought upon them..

They will still blame zelensky instead of Bubari

We're already in hell


Say something else

The famine is coming

End time signs

Mhen this shit is serious....

Laslas, Agriculture is the future

Hmmmmmm... The Children of God will never beg for bread.

The migration crisis has worsened already. Africans will be knocking on the doors of Europe and North America.

Even those that are hailing Putin won't choose Russia, China, or North Korea, but would head straight to the Western World.

It will be that crazy!

Say NO to war!

Shameless UN organization!

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Africa the corrupt continent....
Nigerians that keep hyping Putin's invasion will surely feel the heat..

It's going round..it's just a matter of time..
Well they are used to suffering and smiling so that's a good one..
By the time Putin's puppet experience food shortage for a month they will get to understand the calamity Putin brought upon them..

Like Ukraine is the one producing the world's food......

Whether people hate Putin or not, everybody go share for the suffering....


You no get point abeg...

Buhari sef

Type 2

My problem is with Buhari declaring support for the comedian Zelensky when we import a lot of wheat flour from Russia instead of staying neutral like India, South Africa, Brazil, Arab countries and China

Every small tragedy predictions they remember Africa

I wonder hell that will be heller than what we are seeing in Naija now!

E no directly concern Nigeria but las las na we go suffer am pass because Nigeria always come first in anything bad and unfortunate! We still retain our famous title for poverty capital of the world. No contesting!