{"id":1416790,"date":"2022-04-03T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416790"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:44:45","slug":"global-food-crisis-russia-threatens-to-limit-vital-agri-supply-to-friendly-countries-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-food-crisis-russia-threatens-to-limit-vital-agri-supply-to-friendly-countries-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Food Crisis: Russia Threatens to Limit Vital Agri Supply to \u2018Friendly\u2019 Countries Only"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fglobal-food-crisis-russia-threatens-to-limit-vital-agri-supply-to-friendly-countries-only%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=1416790&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers \u201cfriendly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official who previously served as the nation\u2019s president, has threatened that Russia may soon cut off the West from food exports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A major player in the global market for wheat and other agri-food products, Russia will instead focus on keeping itself fed, according to Medvedev, alongside supplying its friends and close allies.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on his <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/medvedev_telegram\/29\">Telegram<\/a>, Medvedev said that cutting off the likes of North America and the European Union from its agricultural produce would be a very good way of retaliating against sanctions imposed by the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt so happened that the food security of many countries depends on our supplies,\u201d the Russian official wrote. \u201cIt turns out that our food is our quiet weapon. Quiet but ominous.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe priority in food supplies is our domestic market. And price control,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe will supply food and crops only to our friends (fortunately, we have a lot of them, and they are not at all in Europe and not in North America). We will sell both for rubles and for their national currency in agreed proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not supply our products and agricultural products to our enemies,\u201d he went on to say. \u201cAnd we won\u2019t buy anything from them (although we haven\u2019t bought anything since 2014, but the list of products prohibited for import can be further expanded).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev\u2019s threat echoes others being made by the Russian government, such as that reportedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/24\/putin-attacks-petrodollar-system-demands-unfriendly-european-nations-purchase-gas-in-rubles\/\">unfriendly<\/a>\u201d nations will soon be forced to pay for a variety of Russian resources \u2014 including the country\u2019s much sought after gas exports \u2014 in rubles only, or be cut off from supply completely.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If you think we\u2019ve got Hell on earth now, you just get ready,&#8221; said the World Food Bank executive director. &#8220;If we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa\u2019s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q32o4Tp8iG\">https:\/\/t.co\/q32o4Tp8iG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1507669030706061315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russias-former-president-medvedev-warns-agricultural-supplies-restricted-to-friendly-countries\/\">According<\/a> to\u00a0<em>POLITICO<\/em>, the ex-President\u2019s comments come only a day after the Russian government put limits on sunflower oil exports, as well as outright banned the export of sunflower seeds and rapeseed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Even before this ban was announced, foreign nations had been feeling the pinch in regards to sunflower oil supplies, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/de\/sonnenblumen%C3%B6l-und-bunker-kriegsangst-in-deutschland\/a-61192675\">panic buying<\/a> being reported in Germany and shortages affecting traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belgiums-frites-makers-feel-the-heat-as-ukraines-sunflower-oil-stops-flowing\/\">chip shops<\/a>\u00a0in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>However, some officials seem convinced that these minor inconveniences will pale in comparison to the disastrous crises that will occur as a result of a lack of agri-food exports from Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis \u2013 it\u2019s how large the crisis will be,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/08\/global-food-crisis-ukraine-war-will-have-catastrophic-effect-on-global-food-supply-agri-org\/\">said<\/a> one expert, Yara International head\u00a0Svein Tore Holsether, whose company specialises in fertiliser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalf the world\u2019s population gets food as a result of fertilisers\u2026 and if that\u2019s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50 per cent,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Another expert from the United Nations has warned that Europe, in particular, will soon face \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/26\/un-tsar-warns-europe-of-hell-on-earth-migrant-crisis-amid-global-food-shortage\/\">Hell on Earth<\/a>\u201d migration flows if it does not act soon, with a food shortage in the Global South as a result of the ongoing Ukraine crisis being likely to start another migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think we\u2019ve got Hell on earth now, you just get ready,\u201d said the UN\u2019s David Beasley, who formerly served as Governor of South Carolina for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa\u2019s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sweden: Harvests Could Halve Due to Lack of Russian Fertilizers and Manure<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZyxUiCyf5Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZyxUiCyf5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1504472638852378626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers \u201cfriendly\u201d. 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