snuck them off the world cut in katara. exactly important in fulton, herschel, in political terms, were there for you, with your port and background information. everything you need about the 2022 world cup. on d w. ah, ukraine 2022. wheat fields up in flames. missiles strikes are targeting farms

we've done give to you always put it in a little bit thanks for on the street shooting at our store house. we were deliberate target. removing the with harvesting machines have been destroyed. freight ships carrying grain needed and africa are kept waiting in the ports. fighting is hindering fur transports, in spite of the great deal. fears of famine and civil unrest growing off. what's the good it? we will go and strike him and then if prices don't go down, we'll take to the streets and people might get killed. but if i could be able to fuck the fight for several months now, we've been observing this development and trying to understand it. is there a strategy? is russia also weaponized in crops to way to its war against ukraine?

ah, ah, it's june 2022 and we are in the south of ukraine just a few kilometers from the front line. for the nearby black see ports of odessa and make alive i'll being attacked on a daily basis. in this region, grain is grown on a large scale and exported all over the world. at least it was before the war. nadia ivanov us farm is one of many that has been destroyed. she wants to harvest her wheat this year, in spite of the destruction put, put it on the thought that they shot at all our farming equipment. look at the bullet holes here on the selling could resume any time. even the roof is riddled with bullet holes. shove rosa new. you can see

here how heavy the shelling was. good and remember, everyone knows this is the most dangerous own carl watkins shauna. we are in the so called red zone. no one comes here of their own free will for the pharmacy, this means few spare parts and 0 state aid. nadia still needs to feed her family. her husband and 3 children all work on the farm. this way, the grain would normally be cleaned, birth shipper, true dark, horrible. first reaction was fear, grief and bitterness. lucia here, poor felt a desperate loss, but we don't know how much longer it will go on over jamal, but yeah, we are a little calmer now just to rush q 50 every day. life is tough. even the trade is the void, the area. but not, he has still gets an inquiry for sunflower seeds. never

been to doraville for doris. i would sell them for $24.00, but never for 8. certainly not for 7 or you can talk to your boss about it, but i don't agree with this prize in leon. yeah. okay. uh huh. umbrella. okay. the riddle. so didn't want to peer the little $195.00 per ton of drug for shift. but i understand that there are additional logistics costs. oh, but it's not the right price. i want them to me. it's not not yourself. it's just a fraction of the pre will price for her. the situation is a 3rd ballpark. prices are rising worldwide, fueled by fears of food shortages. she is stuck here with 4000 tons of wheat, and its value is eroding anger's bullet to having it isn't painful he, for the rest of the world. and for us with seizure, our grammar for some it is their food and for us is money for our livelihood,

but to carry on working well not yet is not yet know how to keep the business running. until recently, the nearby black c ports had ensured short transport routes and good prices. well, trade is all about shifting large quantities cheaply. but now the ports are undefined. they say in the industry that whoever controls the ports controls expos, professor machine kime is an agricultural economist at the university of bon. he's observing the global effects of the war. no, it's for ions. at some leaps, meters, hunger is being used as a weapons buffer ions at some to sell their withholding food and weapon ising. it also burchesi's on on a line. it's not just the grain silos that have been shall go, borne out in vic, russian warships blocking the ports for months have of course led to

a shortage of grain elsewhere on up to where it is urgently needed stuff. good hydro and us for of was doing and doing had been noticed, won't be a larger field. top stefan meister as a political scientist and russia expect his is that the war is about more than just ukraine in this. i was kept i frightened oddity to, to put in. i think there are 2 central goals, couldn't wants to a cheerful stop for film when dom at 1st he wants to destroy ukrainian society and the state to save his empire. very people from the 2nd he wants to change the world which has been primarily u. s. dominated warden is. he wants to change the european and global security order crowbars are for and on. how does the war in ukraine impact the world wide food supply globally, only a few countries export quantities securing the majority of the world's food between them, ukraine and russia cover almost 30 percent of global demand. in recent years,

countries in asia and africa have become increasingly dependent on cheap supplies from the global north. mm. this is also the case in mauritania. western africa, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. around a 3rd of the grain here is imported from ukraine and russia. we are in no oct shut, the capital of mauritania. almost 900000 people suffer from hunger and mauritania. the higher the grain prices on the world market, the more people they are who cannot afford to eat. the world food program is active throughout the country to alleviate the worst of the hardship we accompany their employee, mama to sell who is responsible for food procurement. list applies have almost run out in the no actual warehouse

a visible effect of the war in ukraine and high prices on the world market dimensional and we are facing as we say on the price of so do ricky's got us in the say describe the press article cookie that mean? if we get to a flow contribution for from our donors, what we used to, to have in thomas county, we can afford since prices have doubled cash donations no longer fund the quantities of food needed. many people can no longer be supported, leading to misery and hunger of cotton, where he saw the global food system as looking vulnerable. and the situation could worse and in the future isn't for life. i kept an appendage to you all for let's

leave her lamps and lie, chains that are highly born, are gold, ours, and if there is a destruction somewhere, the entire system is affected on north america, not pinkish d. we are depended on countries or markers that are becoming increasingly authoritarian states, alcohol striving for more sovereignty and independence edison. we didn't expect our plan for the fact that there could ever be wars in europe again in opium dba, con. farmers are now looking for other transport routes to sell their grain. we follow a new grain export route to the north of ukraine. here nearly vive, few bombs are falling, but the war is still only present. even large companies are experiencing financial hardship gail for, nor can is on the board of one of ukraine's largest agricultural companies, a german native he wants to stay here despite the war his team is struggling to find new opportunities for exports. but both mobile. yeah. all i can

say is logistics logistics, because if we have the logistics chain, you can, we can sell to put the proper mistake. so high, if you crane is weakened to nomic, see it risks losing the war need and swipe dollars without along with our 2000 staff, many suppliers and customers, our business links with our company. think my own directly or indirectly. we provide a study income to run $6.00 to $8000.00 families crisis meetings take place almost daily. gustavo, working under extreme emergency conditions until now, goods of also been shipped from this region by the black sea ports, new logistics chains of an unprecedented scale. have to be set up

the hot weather for it was a cloud level from like 2 or 3 weeks ago. we talked about such a molars for reloading the lock. i was just wondering if you've seen or heard anything. if you have a solution was whistle z in. gretel, even towing or lose will come. we need a technical solution. fungi, if you find something that would be great on a scale, goes across. the problem is that the new roots are longer and significantly more expensive. my product households, pilot product, ours as a generic products and good luck, that means whoever managers to produce and deliver we to the customers the cheapest cost. when's the ranks one? so if grain cannot be delivered from ukraine, other countries will step up to replace these values. ukraine has become as strong competitive to russia as a grain supply in recent years, threatening to take rushes place in the international competition. go

for noah can visits one of the solar facilities. you are a 1000 tons of grain were previously loaded here every day since february, individual trucks have only been transporting a 100 tons per day. has to be in the spirit. say it's frustrating. it feels like a kick him a guns for many of us leaving on the venus lock in the model. half a 1000000 trucks would be needed to replace the black sea ship transports. the war and destruction of infrastructure has created a long term problem. new land routes which crossed the you have to be found urgently, whether by rail on rivers or by truck. there are now huge traffic jams at the board is it's time for political solutions passing law most not really sure from the over such.

there's also the signal has to come from the top and politics. it distorts naturally. it will take a political solution. but unfortunately with european bureaucracy, it is taking far too long, patient will come to you india and hooked up on august the 2nd we had to assume that this war will go on for longer, not just for half a year. let me be 3 for 5 years and me of i and that the black sea will continue to be blockaded by russia dentistry. i'm not sure, of course, it's in our interest for ukraine to diversify its transit routes. if we can, to ensure the green a producers can reach rolled markets, domestic clean deposits, yet of the bed map to comcast. we are back in noah, shut in mauritania. what are the dangers if supplies from ukraine continue to fail and prices rise? bread is a major stable food here. when we imports failed to arrive some 10 years ago, they were riots, bloody demonstrations and protests. today the military controls the

streets and with reason, as bread prices are rising again. customers in hungary, she wipes bakery a worried ah, her, the bread has gone up to day to the throne, with how much $120.00 a government subsidy is for bread, which are common in other countries. aha to sustain in indebted mauritania, the pandemic shrank. the state budget here as well, walking through the market, we are unexpectedly surrounded by a group of men. we feel their desperation 1st hand though i hadn't at boardington, hadn't, at that they put the price of bread up to day. i'm out of gas had nobody knows what to do. killer prices keep rising. and when that happens here, they won't go down again. anyway, nick belushi met though we want to set out it. and if the situation doesn't improve

in the next few years, we will all become sophists. it's unacceptable for we are simple people, we have nothing. we want to lower the cost of living and work. we won't accept it so mother until today what i could buy 2 loaves of bread with this coin. but now you have to hand over to coin skip it, had then if the depth and what ma products had shown what i didn't, can you give me 2 begets? ha, somebody here give me 2 begets come to god, what do i owe you? that letter? 40, how are you? what to do with 2 thirds of weight is here already spent on food? high prices mean hunger will know what the v m. i that i did. my father is so hungry that he cannot sleep on a food is made from wheat to hot. i work i live, but it's not enough for everyone, but i don't want to spend a bad desperation. if bread prices continue to rise, there is danger of civil unrest. way. how did the country become so dependent on

grains supplies from the broad? colonial times? wheat has been one of northern africa staple feats, spread, pastor and pizza. signs of prosperity. local grain such as millet has been replaced. the western agricultural sector still profits from this situation to day. the colonial legacy still causes political tensions. emerson comes under schools. we have to think differently about all of our policies towards africa hunting. our approach is still very colonial, a stickler anesthesia politic. often we need to take these countries more seriously . robert of monopoly, the lender uncertain the most. oh, the central african republic is one country may russia has been expanding its influence for years. in march, the attack on ukraine was met by a show of public support. the former soviet union often supposed that the african

struggle against colonialism by providing weapons or building rights concerns about food imposed mingled with resentment towards former colonial powers. this conflict is reflected in politics. african countries joined together in the african union in 2002 to strengthen their participation and will trade. during the 1st peak of the grain crisis, chairman mike he saw, was invited to saatchi by russian president vladimir putin. brougham. hootin seized the opportunity to publicly communicate his view of the great crisis bukasa that we was regarding the export of ukrainian grain. we are not preventing it. there are several ways to export grain. forcible for it was a hero. vladimir putin does not mention the bombing of ukrainian ports. he

blames western sanctions on russia for the crisis. monkey saw agrees with this view as a bogus your door said sonya, so we're a former citizen. the market. i think that if we find the right solution would cylinder, we will inform the european nations to alicia at hulu, live brooklyn, and also canada will. she will go live less live functional suit that will mean they stopped their sanctions against all kinds of fertilizer or louis it to fertilizers, which are important for our agriculture element and against the export of rush. and we'll see like spot does show a blue this he is following the russian narrative. yet agricultural products are explicitly excluded from western sanctions. by is putin's view, so convincing ones are probably in the ear that the ar problem is arctic. for other reasons, we have a rather bad image and parts of this region window now rushes on the scene,

it appears as a viable alternative. even kind of a minute is not a former colonial power. my thought is well received and has achieved a certain success. bear with us misinformation and disinformation thought, and i think we should, we think our own history and how we interact with these countries. think of see stone when government isn't done like a dogma. this is the only over the world of herb hootin, nickelodeon, that certainly doesn't want to be regarded world wide as the leader who is driving hunger hyped disputes out there. as a shirley, he already has that image in the west, which is also accurate by that is for thought. this probably doesn't bother him emotional english under should because the latter condemns him in any way. we're tired. the enough, the in viet, depending on how the war develops and what the outcome might be. there's definitely the danger of a new geopolitical division in the world. your politician swiped hard on innovative, pushed it off in fire. as fears of famine grow around the world. the harvest begins

in the fields, a few crane ah, russian attacks continue. ukraine, reports, losses, grain prices keep rising, which means good business for all the other trade is on the world market, including russia. unexpectedly, russia reports increased exports fell, may, how come in the south of ukraine? farmers accuse russia of stealing grain from the occupied territories. we meet an informant whose identity is concealed. the town where he lives is under fire. we will fight back. there is real resistance. our informant is

a farmer. we call him sasha. he is threatened by the same faith as his colleagues under russian occupation. the russians came and asked if a farmer here had any diesel. he said no, but they found a container with 3 or 5 tons of it and took it this cannot be independently verified. but so we can form our own opinion, a social calls of friend, the farmer, living under russian occupations since march. how are you? are you okay, are you? well, yes, i'm well, thank god mm. our informant lives some way here in the occupied territories. in front of his house, he has observed russian grain transports. in the beginning,

they removed their russian license plates, but now they just drive around with them on the convoys drive and pick up the grain and drive away again, day and night and it's all going to crimea, right? yes, everything is taken to crimea. is this true? we want to know more and check the facts from the region where our informant lives . there are 2 main roads going all the way to crimea, and the ports of savannah to pull and fear, dozier serviceable, is especially conveniently located for international c trade. mm. we contact the company and ask for satellite images. we checked the ukrainian data. indeed, satellite images revealed that the of lisa grain terminal was bustling with cargo activity and june loading takes place on the 3rd of june. there is further loading

on june the 5th, the 12 and the 16th. the load is always yellow and colors similar to grain. oh, corn, and obviously, and large quantities, so they transported a total of a $140000.00 tons of grain. yes, and thought was just here. we received several reports of large quantities of grain being transported from the ukraine. although this cannot be independently verified. what is certain is that only $8000.00 tons of food was shipped per year from so vast to pull in 201920202021 bus. in 2022. the figures increased 245-0000 tons for all food products.

it is not possible to conclude exactly where this came from and how it came into russian possession. am i upset? of course. i'm upset. we're losing a lot. we confront russian ministries with these allegations, but we received no answer. according to its own data, russia expose it over 80 percent more wheat in may than in the previous year. income from exports is key as professor mos him. kime explains as the auckland and so it was a shovel shot i was slung since russia already eggs or it's a lot of grain. it tends to strengthen. the russian economy comes with normal pies and if russia can export at enormously high prices, oh, then of course at the gold mine westland export and this was back in the more russia connex board, if you, the more the russian economy benefits was one move. so,

and these are the 2 at the moment show. russia has to generate income to keep financing the war about that we don't see and putting, as i'm from mach lynch, there couldn't, is power hungry is he will pull out all the stops, to stay in power into enforce his will get tired of destroying or stealing and so, ingrain is all part of staying and power generating revenue supply and weakening ukraine economically. again, are the one home depot cleaner economist freshman, the pressure on gray markets as scrubbing. the attacks on the black sea ports are causing prices to rise. soon wheat will cost more than ever before becoming unaffordable for many customers. world wide farmers are trying to compensate for the shortages also by using up their stocks. in the port of rostock, germany, a ship is being loaded to deliver we to mauritania. look fixed. he there is a grain trader. i let me figure. he is shipping

27500 tons of we to africa from last year's harvest from nicely thankfully for youth malik. right. mil frish. i live with al philip, mom phone. really? mary lou fixed he lived and worked in ukraine for several years. he wishes his colleagues, there were able to deliver the grain themselves for will cartoonish lumberton, for the sake of all ukrainian farmer that we would very much like to see odessa. port 3 again, hadn't good at the grain being loaded here is mainly from mecklenburg, west in pomeranian. it was put into storage and the sailors of rostock port last year looked fixed. he had no idea then how much he would own with it. we

are, sam nascar tied to him handsome new vinegar calls it will soon because we bought the grain in the fall and winter when we did not know the buyer, but still had to submit a price to the farmers could fight. then we owned the grain and had a big price rest that the value of the goods on the ship is about $11000000.00 euros. we have to hedge the rescue, dust hazy cooperation. in this case he will make a profit. but why has the price of wheat risen so dramatically since the start of the war politic sleeva? it's mainly due to uncertainty about how much grain will be available this year. and the script i know on fog, i assure oklahoma there has been extensive economic literature on it over the last few years later. what we know today is very simple. math the markets assess whether we have enough stock to last until the next harvest, with any noise. well, the wheat last until new wheat is harvested. however, if it doesn't due to awful circumstances like the war, then prices will rising in harmony. patsy. the only reason i can deposit and i was

kind an ongoing the attack on ukraine has exposed the weaknesses of the global food supply chain. company justice, i really think what and char, i think it is important to reduce russia's potential for blackmail due to at least take this leverage out of russia's hands off to 100 name and when you start. but i think we also have to question our system in the way we have use globalization to our own advantage. and for our prosperity and for tyler hutton demons, then we will be able to reduce his vulnerability and hopefully also the fear have fallen. couldn't wonder when talking about the angst. and what about ukraine? at the end of our filming, we hear that the fighting has intensified. there is still uncertainty about how the wool overweight will play out. ah aah.

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