The world economy is expected to experience its sharpest deceleration in more than 80 years. War in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions, and the continued economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing food prices to all-time highs. The number of people affected by hunger rose in 2021 to 828 million, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since 2019. Climate change has reduced global agricultural productivity by about 21% since 1961. The seminar will explore how trade will increasingly become even more important to diffuse the food crisis in an increasingly climate afflicted world plagued by changing weather and extreme weather events. It will highlight the state of food security in the world and how global food trade restrictions have compounded food insecurity caused by the war in Ukraine . . .
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