The Russian invasion is causing pain far beyond Ukraine’s borders. Exports of food from Ukraine have ground to a halt, and the impacts are already being felt around the world.
Long known as Europe’s breadbasket, Ukraine produces a considerable amount of the world’s food including more than half of the WFP’s wheat supply.
Ukrainian ports are closed, and Russian grain and fertilizer deals are on pause because of sanctions. Forty-five African and least developed countries import at least a third of their wheat directly from Ukraine or Russia.
Of those, 18 countries import at least 50 percent from the region, including Burkina Faso, Egypt, the DRC, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.The war has sparked turmoil on global grain markets, sending prices soaring.
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Tens of millions of hungry people rely on the WFP’s wheat stores, from Ethiopia to Afghanistan, Syria to Yemen. Rising food prices have already forced the agency to cut rations.
The WFP says, 811 million now go to bed hungry every night, while the number of people facing acute food insecurity more than doubled from 135 million to 276 million since 2019.
A total of 44 million people in 38 countries are on the edge of famine. The crisis will hit people already suffering in unimaginable ways.
In Yemen, where a horrific civil war has brought death and disease on a devastating scale, people will have even less to eat.
For those in Lebanon, whose past years have been blighted by grinding financial and political crises, the Beirut port catastrophe, and the pandemic, price rises will spell further misery for untold millions.
The war in Ukraine will cause many more people around the world over the edge of hunger.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called the invasion of Ukraine “an assault on the world’s most vulnerable people and countries.
Even without Ukrainian and Russian exports, the problem seems to lie with distribution and supply.
Distribution and logistics issues become an even greater challenge when global supply chains are already overstretched and many air and land routes blocked.
The war are hitting the poorest, hungriest countries the hardest.
The word of God is being fulfilled weekly right in front of everyone:
This comes as extreme weather events, conflict, the pandemic, and inflation were already driving global food prices to what the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says is an all-time high .
The implications of wheat price hikes alone are shattering.
Revelations 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Revelations 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Revelations 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Revelations 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Proverbs 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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