{"id":1408447,"date":"2022-03-29T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408447"},"modified":"2022-03-29T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:36","slug":"with-ukraine-farmers-on-frontlines-u-n-food-chief-warns-of-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-ukraine-farmers-on-frontlines-u-n-food-chief-warns-of-devastation\/","title":{"rendered":"With Ukraine farmers on frontlines, U.N. food chief warns of \u2018devastation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwith-ukraine-farmers-on-frontlines-u-n-food-chief-warns-of-devastation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1408447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T224428Z_1_LYNXNPEI2S18T_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-UN-AID_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: A combine harvester machine loads grain onto a transport truck in Nikolaev\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: A combine harvester machine loads grain onto a transport truck near the southern Ukranian city of Nikolaev July 7, 2013. REUTERS\/Vincent Mundy\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) \u2013     The U.N. food chief warned on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine was threatening to devastate the World Food Programme\u2019s efforts to feed some 125 million people globally because Ukraine had gone \u201cfrom the breadbasket of the world to breadlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just decimating dynamically Ukraine and the region, but it will have global context impact beyond anything we\u2019ve seen since World War Two,\u201d WFP Executive Director David Beasley told the 15-member United Nations Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley said 50% of the grain bought by the WFP, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, comes from Ukraine, \u201cso you can only assume the devastation that this is going to have on our operations alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe farmers are on the frontlines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Beasley added that the crisis was compounded by a lack of fertilizer products coming from Belarus and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t put fertilizer on the crops, your yield will be at least 50% diminished. So we\u2019re looking at what could be a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe in the months ahead,\u201d he told the council.<\/p>\n<p>Before Russia\u2019s Feb. 24 invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, Beasley said the WFP was already struggling with high fuel and food prices and shipping costs that was forcing it to cut rations for millions of people in places like Yemen. <\/p>\n<p>Beasley warned if the conflict in Ukraine was not ended, \u201cthe world will pay a mighty price and the last thing we want to be doing as the World Food Programme is taking food from hungry children to give to starving children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia rejected accusations that Moscow\u2019s actions in Ukraine had caused the \u201cserious turbulence\u201d in the global food market, instead blaming Western sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia calls its invasion a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d that aims to destroy Ukraine\u2019s military infrastructure. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly deplored Russia\u2019s \u201caggression\u201d and demanded it withdraw its troops.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told the council sanctions were not fueling the global food crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responsibility for waging war on Ukraine\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and for the war\u2019s effects on global food security\u00a0\u2013\u00a0falls solely on President Putin,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Karishma Singh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A combine harvester machine loads grain onto a transport truck near the southern Ukranian city of Nikolaev July 7, 2013. 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