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464 - How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Causing a Global Food Crisis

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What Are the Impacts on Food Products?

Wheat is a core ingredient of food products from posta to all kinds of nootles across the middle east and even asia. So this disruption has just devastated the ability, particularly of the food aid community,. To source their wheat and their vegetable oil. But then in the medium run, it spreads to other commodities. And even right away it does, because traders anticipate that if corn is scarce, if wheat is scarce, then corn will be scarce. If sunflower oil is scarce, thand other vegetable oils, prices go up. This happened at a time when there was a lot of pressure for higher prices for other reasons.

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