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Expresso has blown the whistle on this spiralling crisis, admitting the situation - the worst, it says, in living memory - has been further exacerbated by drought.
Arable farmers, meat producers, dairy farmers, bakers, poultry farmers and all the industries within the food sector have never seen or experienced anything like the issues stacked up against them.
One of the major obstacles is that Russia and Ukraine are two of the world's principal suppliers of cereals - "essential for food production". With these now limited, prices are skyrocketing - making every process more 'complicated'.
Comment: Russia's incursion into Ukraine began about 2 weeks ago, clearly these problems have been accumulating for a lot longer than that. Crop failures due to extreme weather events have been accumulating for at least a decade, then we've had nearly two years of lockdowns that have wrought havoc on supply chains, and now the West is waging war on some of the world's largest producers and suppliers, such as Russia and China, one could say a collapse of the food chain is inevitable:
- Cost of food in the world rising at fastest pace in 40 years, lockdowns largely to blame
- #BareShelvesBiden trends again as US supply chain crisis continues
- China lifts all restrictions on wheat imports from Russia
- Flock culled after bird flu outbreak in France's foie gras region, Israel suffers a number of outbreaks across the country
- England's farmers to be paid to 'rewild' land, despite soaring food costs & supply issues
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