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to food security and may result from future crises. convened a public workshop to discuss global food These global and multidisciplinary challenges require security challenges arising from the Ukraine conflict and interdisciplinary solutions that address agricultural possible approaches to address these challenges.
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Tilmes provided an overview of the workshop objectives, including to: • Raise awareness of the global food security challenges arising from the Ukraine conflict; • Explore approaches for improving global agricultural preparedness for crisis response; and • Discuss strategies that might be applicable at different scales along with opportunities for international collaboration. WARFARE ECOLOGY, RECURRENT ACUTE DISASTERS, AND THE UKRAINE CONFLICT: FRAMING REMARKS FOR SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE Gary Machlis, Clemson University, discussed the implications of recurrent acute disasters to the environment and broader sustainability.
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• Assess keystone elements for vulnerabilities and potential resilience improvements UNFOLDING GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY CRISIS AND THE IMPACT • Extend the focus of concern to pre-war, war, and OF THE UKRAINE CONFLICT post-war conditions and consequences Madhur Gautam, The World Bank, began by discussing the impact of war in Ukraine on global food and nutrition • Document legacy conditions within a recurrent acute security. The Russian invasion of Ukraine could not have disaster framework come at the worse time, he said, on the heels of the • Work at scales beyond national to include regions, COVID-19 and growing climate crises around the world.
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along with a commitment to avoid export trade means that a much larger group of food importing restrictions that exacerbate global food price countries are now vulnerable, including countries that are increases already suffering from high levels of hunger such as Yemen, Haiti, Djibouti, Iraq, Cabo Verde, Lesotho, and Liberia, etc. • Support consumers and vulnerable households by scaling up nutrition-sensitive social protection Another major concern as result of the Ukraine crisis is programs and replenish early-response financing skyrocketing fertilizer prices, Gautam stated.
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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GLOBAL TRADE AND Nicoletta Batini, International Monetary Fund, reiterated REGIONAL SUPPLY CHAINS that the Ukrainian conflict has directly impacted the Jeff Martin, Tribal Planet, moderated a panel focusing global food prices. In addition to wheat futures at on challenges and opportunities for international trade their highest level since 2012 and tight supplies in and markets, including the impacts of supply chain key exporting countries, the trade restrictions due to disruptions and uncertainties and the importance of sanctions on Russia have also increased worldwide information sharing on commodities during crisis.
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There is also a need to increase sustainable agricultural Yousuf Al-Bulushi, German University of Technology in production, Batini noted. In the United States and the Oman, discussed how the Ukraine conflict is affecting European Union, there is an opportunity to reallocate land global food supply, including its role in destroying currently used to grow crops for biofuels to the production infrastructure and the damage to crops due to military of crops for food, Batini stated.
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Matlock added that there is a need for more investment Participants also discussed the need to create supply in peri-urban agricultural production in regions around chain efficiencies in addressing the food supply crisis. the world, which will allow farmers to have access to Glauber said there is a need to mitigate trade restrictions effective processing, packaging, distribution, storage which may help to address food supply issues.
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to grow crops, allowing their communities to remain self-sufficient during this period. Hunger is a significant problem in the Ukraine, given disruptions by the invasion to the food systems Participants discussed what steps could have been additionally the growing region is now occupied by taken to better prepare for the Ukraine conflict.
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SOURCE: Rod Schoonover, presentation, June 1, 2022, derived from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5)
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.5 broadcasting the scale of the problems and the enormity of the solutions required, society will fail to achieve even Non-climate factors play a larger role in determining modest sustainability goals." conflict risk, including low socioeconomic development, low state capability, intergroup inequality, and recent Schoonover discussed pathways for risk to human history of violent conflict, among others. Climate change security, such as death or injury from direct harm, water ranks low on the list.
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Additionally, there are data from across driving these stressors. The Ukraine war has unmasked Africa that show that as temperature rises, the risk of weak points in our global agricultural supply chains.
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about data to inform decisions about supply chains and move toward more resiliency and accountability. The As one participant noted, many countries have not adoption of technology and increasing the role of data yet considered the connections between climate can also help address challenges related to inequality and displacement and migration and broader security policy.
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COMMITTEE ON SUSTAINBILITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE UKRAINE CONFLICT AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY KLAUS TILMES (Chair) , Senior Policy Advisor and Development Consultant; MELISSA HO, World Wildlife Fund; JEFF MARTIN, Tribal Planet, Inc., and RONI NEFF, Johns Hopkins University.
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