Turkey, in particular, has a lot of countries just to its South who will be in deep trouble if the grain shortage increases.
🇹🇷🌾#Turkey is negotiating with #Ukraine and the #Russian Federation on the organization of a corridor for the export of grain - Reuters, citing a senior #Turkish official
More than 20 million tons of grain got stuck in the #Ukrainian ports.https://t.co/NfVU78HTay— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 26, 2022
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22 million tonnes of grain can’t be exported from Ukraine because Russia blockades Black Sea ports. In Mykolaiv farmers are preparing for a new harvest, but cannot export even the last year’s grain and sunflower seeds. Russia is using hunger as a weapon, blackmailing the world. pic.twitter.com/iKf7YeWmMS
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) May 26, 2022
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Germany and Poland are working together to get Ukrainian grain to Western Europe
The Deutsche Bahn railway agency is creating a Berlin train lift for this purpose and Poland has established a new border crossing regime with Germany to facilitate grain transfers— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 26, 2022
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Romania is trying to alleviate food insecurity in the Global South by allowing grain exports
Constanta, Romania’s main port, can only process 90,000 tons of grain a day and there are 22 million tons of grain trapped in Ukraine— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 26, 2022