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Conflict zone are writing this year off completely. because its simply too dangerous to work the land. this is already impacting food prices for everyone. but most acutely for people in vulnerable countries. in 2020, 80% of lebanon wheat imports came from ukraine alone. 40% of libya. 30% of egypts wheat came from ukraine last year. and now bakery prices there are jumping as high as 25%. on top of climate change and rising inequality the russian invasion will deepen poverty and increase instabili...

A crop for this coming year. if this land comes online, can this land replace the same crops that wed be missing from ukraine? well, it may not grow the corn that was coming from ukraine but obviously, you could plant wheat or, in particular, barley now for the spring. it would be replacing animal feed. so that, i think, that is very important because, you know, we need, we need a boost in the stocks. obviously now of the animal feed right across europe in the round, like, we need approximately ...

Before this war. just take us back, what was driving those increases? what weve been seeing for at least the last six months was a series of events globally amongst the majorfood producers around the world. we just seem to be suffering all kinds of various supply setbacks, whether it was argentina with its drought or very dry weather in the us and canadian wheat—growing areas, brazilian drought, all the big grain—producing countries, for some reason or other ended up with below—average cro...

Its very -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: wheat is usually planted around march and harvested in the summer. but we are told on this farm near lviv that most farmers in the conflict zone are writing this year off completely because its simply too dangerous to work the land. back on the farm outside lviv we meet pavlo kovalcheck who manages the fields and other crops that grow here like apple, plum, and walnut trees. are you ready for the longer term? if this war lasts a long time, a...

And sanctions have been in place for little over a month. how long can russia afford to continue on in this vain? >> you can run down a economy. as we have seen in venezuela. the question is when the political forces say this is enough. >> anna stewart, cnn, london. the head of the un food aid program says the war in ukraine could fuel a food crisis impacting 125 million people globally. david says hatch of the grain purchased by the world food program comes from ukraine. and that the war is d...

You harvest in the spring. those larger crops are starting to come in. to the point where elevators are not using the same higher prices that the wall street workers are. we are starting to get to different levels. people in the green trade are down here, and the wall street guys are up here. at some point they will have to come back down. there are some crazy bubble going on. that the crop people -- the crop prices are going off, not nearly to the level we have seen from wall street. the prices...

Home takes off. around the world they will have serious implications. when wheat was going straight up in price 12 years ago. that helped set off the arab spring which led to regime change in some of those countries. you could have the same thing happen in the next 12 months to two years. but in the immediate future food prices will take off. brian: people are abstaining in he equip because they need russias imports. >> you cant grow vigorous crops without fertilizer. and its in short supply and...

Are all but closed. and its bad timing for another reason. oleg ustenko, an economic adviser to ukraines president zelensky, wrote in the financial times recently: which he says "will need to be removed before crops are grown". that would make coping without the food grown in ukraines fields just one more long—term problem when it comes to the worlds food supplies. in the case of food prices, in some parts of the world, especially, for instance, in africa, you see high pass through, but a lot ...

Of corn in the yellow here and fifth largest producer of wheat. so you can see these areas are all contested areas and that raises a lot of question about food and what can ukraine can do with all of those crops. another person concerned about food is chef jose andreas who has been working in poland along the border setting up food distribution sites working in lviv and made his way to the capital city where he is feeding people as he has done around the world joining us from kyiv chef jose andr...