{"id":62710,"date":"2022-05-21T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62710"},"modified":"2022-05-21T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:36:18","slug":"india-isnt-the-only-one-banning-food-exports-these-countries-are-doing-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62710","title":{"rendered":"India isn\u2019t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PageBuilder-containerWidth100 PageBuilder-pageRow\">\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleHeader-2\" data-test=\"articleHeader-0\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleHeader-2-0\">\n<header id=\"main-article-header\" class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader-headerContentContainer\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHeader-wrapperHeroNoImage ArticleHeader-wrapperHero ArticleHeader-wrapper ArticleHeader-wrapperNoImage\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"ArticleHeader-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/18\/countries-banning-food-exports-amid-rising-prices-inflation.html?__source=sharebar%7Cfacebook&amp;par=sharebar&amp;fbclid=IwAR3Y0z2_4yL1N3-HlmGRfGTDTVI68jz6DRoSsnsQhtFzhHDtErZn1pUtUeM\">India isn\u2019t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-containerFluidWidths PageBuilder-pageRow\">\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-KeyPoints-4\" class=\"RenderKeyPoints-keyPoints\" data-test=\"keyPoints-1\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-keyPoints-4-1\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-list\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>The war has triggered a huge spike in wheat prices, with Russia and Ukraine among the biggest exporters of the commodity. Many countries have banned wheat, as well as other food exports as a result of the Ukraine crisis.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAs the war continues, there is a growing likelihood that food shortages, particularly of grains and vegetable oils, will become acute, leading more countries to turn to restrictions on trade,\u201d said the International Food Policy Research Institute.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s a list of countries that have banned food exports in the months after the Russia-Ukraine war started, according to a live tracker developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" class=\"ArticleBody-articleBody\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<div id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-107061278\" class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imagePlaceholder\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-test=\"InlineImage-pictureContainer\"><picture data-test=\"Picture\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107061278-1652543582243-gettyimages-1240414059-INDIA_WHEAT_HEATWAVE.jpeg?v=1652839860&amp;w=740&amp;h=416&amp;ffmt=webp\" media=\"(min-width: 1340px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107061278-1652543582243-gettyimages-1240414059-INDIA_WHEAT_HEATWAVE.jpeg?v=1652839860&amp;w=630&amp;h=354&amp;ffmt=webp\" media=\"(min-width: 1020px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107061278-1652543582243-gettyimages-1240414059-INDIA_WHEAT_HEATWAVE.jpeg?v=1652839860&amp;w=929&amp;h=523&amp;ffmt=webp\" media=\"(min-width: 760px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107061278-1652543582243-gettyimages-1240414059-INDIA_WHEAT_HEATWAVE.jpeg?v=1652839860&amp;w=717&amp;h=403&amp;ffmt=webp\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107061278-1652543582243-gettyimages-1240414059-INDIA_WHEAT_HEATWAVE.jpeg?v=1652839860&amp;w=929&amp;h=523&amp;ffmt=webp\" alt=\"Workers unload wheat sacks from a truck at a Punjab Grains Procurement Corp. facility in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India, on Sunday, May 1, 2022.\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption\">India has banned wheat exports as the price of grain surged this year due in part to the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCredit\">T. Narayan | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/16\/us-europe-to-improve-food-chains-after-india-bans-wheat-exports.html\">India has banned wheat exports<\/a>, becoming the latest country to do so as the price of grain surged this year due in part to the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>The war has triggered a huge spike in wheat prices, with Russia and Ukraine among the biggest exporters of the commodity. Both countries account for 29% of global wheat exports,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/video\/2022\/04\/05\/the-impact-of-the-war-in-ukraine-on-food-security-world-bank-expert-answers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the World Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith\u00a0food prices\u00a0already high due to COVID-related supply chain disruptions and drought-reduced yields last year, Russia\u2019s invasion came at a bad time for global food markets,\u201d said the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in an April note.<\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C.-based think-tank the Peterson Institute for International Economics added in a recent note that Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has \u201ctaken a shocking toll on the region.\u201d \u201cIt has also contributed to a global food crisis, as Russia is blocking vital fertilizer exports needed by farmers elsewhere, and Ukraine\u2019s role as the breadbasket for Africa and the Middle East has been destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India isn\u2019t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same The war has triggered a huge spike in wheat prices, with Russia and Ukraine among the biggest exporters of the commodity. Many countries have banned wheat, as well as other food exports as a result of the Ukraine crisis. \u201cAs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[964,29341,4065,320,18189,422,694,3237,821,32104],"class_list":["post-62710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-cnbc","tag-covid","tag-fertiliser","tag-food-exports","tag-food-price-inflation","tag-india","tag-russia","tag-supply-chains","tag-ukraine","tag-weizhen-tan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62711,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62710\/revisions\/62711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}