While it has led to a significant spike in food insecurity in Ukraine, it has also had a major impact on global supply chains and international trade in food and fertilizers. The war in Ukraine has broken this pattern. The impact has primarily been felt in the countries where the conflict occurs-indeed, the world’s worst food crises are persistently found in conflict-affected countries. Violent conflict has been the main driver of an increase in global food insecurity that started some eight years ago. ![]() How the war has impacted global food supplies What were the risks for global food security, humanitarian responses and political stability in countries beyond Ukraine’s borders? Here, this blog post explores how those risks have played out and the prospects ahead as the world enters the second year of this war in the breadbasket. ![]() In April last year, SIPRI published a series of three blogs looking at the implications of a war taking place in one of the world’s biggest grain exporters and that has seen trade sanctions affecting both Russia’s exports of grain and fertilizers. But its repercussions have been much wider. ![]() The war has had a devastating impact on the people of Ukraine and shaken the foundations of post-cold war European security. ![]() It is one year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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