Ukraine: the figures of the wheat war

Ihe planet’s “breadbasket” is at war. In normal times, Russia and Ukraine together account for almost a third of world wheat exports. The Black Sea ports are at a standstill, transport costs are exploding, as are grain prices. In Europe, in Africa, in the Middle East, people worry: how to get supplies? And how else to get supplies?

The war in Ukraine has inflamed an already strained global wheat market that remains as essential to human survival as it was in ancient times. A market whose size has more than tripled in sixty years, from 222.4 million tonnes in 1961 to 775 million in 2021, and where Russia and Ukraine occupy a major place, as the third and seventh producing countries …

Maksym Balanyukh FOR “THE POINT”