Africa is buying fertilizer and grain from a country, russia, that is waging a widely condemned war against ukraine. Western nations have urged africa not to buy into russia's view that the west is at fault for a growing global food crisis. Russia is pretending that there are massive sanctions on wheat - but they're actually damaging its capacity to export food around the world. The real reason that this food crisis has got so much worse this year is because of Russian invasion.
Russia is weaponizing food by blockading Ukraine’s grain exports and withholding its own until other countries come to Putin to ask for it.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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