World food prices were rising before russia's invasion in february, but they shot up as a result of because both ukraine and russia are very large exporters of grain. Ukraine has been trying to open alternative routes through the danube river, through a rail connections to western europe and also by road. So this was a good step for the world. But people will be wary. The united nations says 828 million people around the world are going hungry every night,. There are about 50 million people who are on the brink of starvation.