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Cargo ships are docked in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Nov. 4, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

Russia has mounted a blockade of Ukrainian ports

By Pavel Polityuk, GFM Network News May 10, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s president called on the international community on Monday to take immediate steps to end a Russian blockade of his country’s ports to allow wheat exports and prevent a global food crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made his comments in an online post after speaking to European Council President Charles Michel, who […] Read more

Farmer Anil Salunkhe feeds strawberries to a cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Satara district in India’s Maharashtra state on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Rajendra Jadhav)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Cows fed strawberries in India, watermelons rot in U.S., okra not reaching Canada

By Naveen Thukral, Nigel Hunt, rajendra-jadhav, GFM Network News April 4, 2020

Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other farmers are doing just that […] Read more

A view of the “Bridge of No Return” from the South Korean side of the DMZ between North and South Korea. (Bob Hilscher/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, UN says

By Tom Miles May 3, 2019

Geneva | Reuters — Four in 10 North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday. Official rations are down to 300 grams (10.6 ounces) per person per day, the lowest ever for this time […] Read more

A view of Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. (UGurhan/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

WFP says Yemen food aid being stolen in Houthi-run areas

By Reuters December 31, 2018

Geneva | Reuters — Food aid meant for starving Yemenis is being stolen and sold in some areas controlled by the Houthi movement, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday. The Houthis control most towns and cities including the capital Sanaa, from where they ousted Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government in 2014. A Saudi-led […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

By Marc Frank April 30, 2016

Havana | Reuters –– Cuba decided at a secretive Communist Party congress last week to reverse market reforms in food distribution and pricing, according to reports in official media, reflecting tensions within the party about the pace of economic change. President Raul Castro unveiled an ambitious market reform agenda in one of the world’s last […] Read more

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Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, UN says

WFP says Yemen food aid being stolen in Houthi-run areas

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

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