The United Nations estimates global food prices are almost 25% higher than they were a year ago, and a record number of people are on the brink of starvation.
- Chris Barrett, professor of agriculture and economics at Cornell University, said the food crisis is causing “serious humanitarian consequences” like making healthy diets unaffordable, even for working people.
- The major factors contributing to the situation are disruptions from Covid-19, climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war, said Barrett.
- The U.S. government should extend social safety nets to the rest of the world to shield people from hunger, he said.
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The United Nations estimates global food prices are almost 25% higher than they were a year ago (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
People shop at a Fairway grocery store during a similar food crisis in 2008 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The global food crisis, which involves the supply of commodities like wheat, is causing serious consequences, says Chris Barrett.
