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Governments tighten grip on global food stocks, sending prices higher

Dozens of countries have thrown up trade barriers in the past two months to protect scarce supplies of food and commodities, but experts say the policies will only exacerbate a global food crisis.

These moves are further straining supply chains that were already in disarray from the pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The conflict in Ukraine has been the latest in a long list of ongoing cataclysmic events that continue to disrupt global trade and international supply chains. Only a few months ago, international trade experts were hopeful that the worst of the pandemic’s supply-chain issues were over and that some stability could be restored to the ...

Western countries’ refusal to work with Russia could paralyse the trade body beyond repair