The war in Ukraine: yet another crisis. If alarm bells are ringing loudly and incessantly it’s because governments, civil society, activists, development organisations, and donors are signalling the negative impact of the war in Ukraine on African food systems. The domino effects of the war are manifest in substantial supply shortages, disruptions in supply chains and cargo shipments, particularly from Ukraine, one of the world’s food baskets. The greatest impact is on food commodities—wheat, maize, and sunflower products, such as cooking oil, and on fossil-fuel-based inputs such as nitrogen-based fertilisers.

Refiloe Joala & Jan Urhahn

Read full article in Rosalux by Refiloe Joala & Jan Urhahn

More articles

Nov 22 2024

I’m finally into ‘prepping’ and ready for the apocalypse

by Eva Wiseman in The Guardian…Piles of loo paper, a years worth of tinned goods and snake-proof boots. No wonder prepping has become a lifestyle choice

Nov 16 2024

The forces of chance

by Brian Klaas in aeon…Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory

Oct 29 2024

AI Snake Oil—A New Book by 2 Princeton University Computer Scientists

by Eric Topol in Ground Truths….A Counter to the Hype and Some Misleading Claims

Oct 10 2024

The collapse is coming. Will humanity adapt?

by Peter Watts in The MIT Press…..Now, Homo sapiens of some form or another is going to survive no matter what we do, short of blowing up the planet with nuclear...
Sep 24 2024

Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence

Sean Illing of The Gray Area interviews Yuval Noah Harari…If the internet age has anything like an ideology, it’s that more information and more data and...
Sep 18 2024

Scaling: The state of play in AI

by Ethan Mollick in One Useful Thing…With continued advancements in model architecture and training techniques, we’re approaching a new frontier in AI...
Sep 18 2024

Superbugs ‘could kill 39m people by 2050’ amid rising drug resistance

by Kat Lay in The Guardian…Child deaths from infections see ‘remarkable’ decline but AMR fatalities of over-70s likely to rise by 146%, study finds Analysis:...
Sep 12 2024

A few rules for predicting the future by Octavia E. Butler

by Octavia E. Butler in Common Good Collective…So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is...
Sep 12 2024

The U.S. needs to pay more attention to electronic warfare

by Steven Glinert in Noahpinion…Electronic warfare (EW) is a bit of a sleeper in the US arsenal. The US invented its modern form and has used it to great effect...
Sep 12 2024

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

by Max Roser in Our World in Data…Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that...