The World Food Programme (WFP) is working to minimise the knock-on effects of rising food and energy prices – triggered by the Ukraine conflict – on hunger around the world, while it looks to scale up operations within the country and reach 3.1 million people. “[As] hunger threatens Ukraine directly, the fallout from this war will spread across the globe. Russia and Ukraine together export about 30 per cent of the world’s wheat,” said WFP executive director David Beasley.
A report just published by WFP warns that the costs of its global operations look set to increase by $29m (£22m) a month. When added to pre-existing increases of $42m (since 2019), the total additional costs facing WFP are $71m per month.
