{"id":1472828,"date":"2022-05-12T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472828"},"modified":"2022-05-12T09:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T13:59:40","slug":"asian-african-nations-face-famine-as-ukraine-crisis-hits-global-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-african-nations-face-famine-as-ukraine-crisis-hits-global-food-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian, African Nations Face Famine As Ukraine Crisis Hits Global Food Supply"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fasian-african-nations-face-famine-as-ukraine-crisis-hits-global-food-supply%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=1472828&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-22-copy-6-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Asian and African nations are facing severe food shortages as the Ukraine conflict continues to unfold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine and Russia combined <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/war-in-ukraine-could-plunge-world-into-food-shortages#:~:text=If%20they%20don%27t%20succeed,12%20percent%20of%20its%20calories.\"><span>produce<\/span><\/a><span> roughly 12% of the world\u2019s calories, as well as 30% of the world\u2019s traded wheat. The United Nations <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/03\/1114962\"><span>warned<\/span><\/a><span> as early as March that Ukraine\u2019s ability to \u201charvest crops, plant new ones or sustain livestock production\u201d was in jeopardy due to the Russian invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, African nations like Kenya and Ethiopia \u2014 which are already struggling with drought conditions and related livestock deaths \u2014 are facing compounded food shortages amid a global rise in food prices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe cost of grain, fuel and fertilizer has skyrocketed worldwide, worsening hunger crises,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/millions-lives-risk-famine-stalks-horn-africa\/story?id=84643535\"><span>ABC News<\/span><\/a><span> reported, adding that \u201cmany countries in East Africa rely on Russia and Ukraine for a significant percentage of these agricultural commodities.\u201d The United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme\u2019s local food basket has also soared in price by 23% over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beyond food, Russia alone <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=709&#038;t=6\"><span>produces<\/span><\/a><span> 11% of the world\u2019s oil supply. Much of the world has seen a surge in gas prices since the beginning of the Ukraine invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The high fuel costs are impacting agriculture in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka, in which farmers are already struggling due to a ban on chemical fertilizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s planting time here, coinciding with the arrival of seasonal rains that will fill the paddies, but\u2026 Only a handful of the plots have been planted with the pale green seedlings, the rest carry the wispy remnants of last season\u2019s crop gone to seed, or are empty, save for a soupy brown slop,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sri-lanka-food-crisis-how-shortage-of-fuel-and-rising-prices-affect-entire-economy-12607598\"><span>Sky News<\/span><\/a><span> reported. \u201cAs a result they can\u2019t afford, or sometimes even find, the diesel or kerosene required for tractors and rotavators to turn the soil.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Farmer Ravindra Wickramrathana told the outlet that the ban is causing farmers to only harvest 25% of their former yield. \u201cI can\u2019t even think about the future, the price of everything is increasing, labour costs have gone up,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can\u2019t cover our costs how can we continue farming? We don\u2019t know how to do anything else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the United States, lawmakers are attempting to pass $40 billion in funds for the Ukrainian military to end the Russian invasion. President Joe Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-asks-congress-to-fast-track-nearly-40-billion-in-vital-ukraine-aid\"><span>explained<\/span><\/a><span> that his former relief package had been exhausted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis aid has been critical to Ukraine\u2019s success on the battlefield. We cannot allow our shipments of assistance to stop while we await further Congressional action,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI am pleased that, in my conversations with Congressional leaders, there appears to be strong support for the proposal I submitted, and Congress is likely to pass it in substantially the form I proposed. I urge them to do so, and again, I urge them to do so quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mitch-mcconnell-claims-we-all-agree-the-most-important-thing-going-on-in-the-world-right-now-is-the-war-in-ukraine\"><span>agreed<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201cthe most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think we\u2019re on a path to getting that done, discussions are underway between the House and Senate appropriators on the crafting of the package,\u201d he added in reference to the aid package. \u201cIt needs to be clean of extraneous matters, directly related to helping Ukrainians win the war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian and African nations are facing severe food shortages as the Ukraine conflict continues to unfold.Ukraine and Russia combined produce roughly 12% of the world\u2019s calories, as well as 30%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1444164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}