19 May 2022 By Know Muslim
The UN has cautioned that the conflict in Ukraine has contributed to a worldwide food shortage that could last years if it is not addressed, while the World Bank has promised an additional $12 billion in funding to help reduce the conflict's "serious impact.
As financial markets fell heavily on fears of inflation and a worldwide recession, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that shortages of grain and fertiliser caused by the war, rising temperatures, and pandemic-related supply problems threaten to "tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity.
He claimed "malnutrition, mass hunger, and famine, in a disaster that might persist for years," as he and others pushed Russia to free Ukrainian grain exports at a UN summit on global food security in New York.
To find a solution, he said he was in "intensive touch" with Russia and other countries.
"The complicated security, economic, and financial consequences require goodwill on all sides in order to accomplish a package deal," he said of his talks with Moscow, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, the European Union, and others. "I won't get into specifics since making public remarks could harm our chances."
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