A perfect storm of war, extreme weather and Covid-19 will drive global food prices to levels that will cause social unrest in some parts of the world, according to the head of the United Nations World Food Programme.
"If people can't feed their children and their families, then the politics unsettles," Beasley told CNN during a conference on Thursday. Hit by high prices and supply disruptions, Beasley said the UN has been forced to ration food supplies to millions of people around the world. Often, that means diverting food away from hungry children to feed starving children.
And he argued that some economic metrics are already significantly worse than before the Arab Spring. 'Much worse than you think'Heading into January, the UN worried that 2022 would mark the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And then Russia invaded Ukraine, the world's breadbasket. Ukraine is one of the world's leading exporters of corn, wheat, barley and sunflower oil.