The Global Food System Enables Russia to Use Food as a Weapon

Russia’s back and forth with Ukraine wheat exports – first accepting a deal to allow their shipment, then threatening to block them, and apparently agreeing to allow them to be released again – is yet one more illustration of the use of food as a weapon. As the logic goes, Russia controlling Ukrainian food exports More

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