A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk
War, extreme weather and export controls are all contributing
In 2001 olena nazarenko’s father started farming in Lukashivka, a small village about 100km north of Kyiv, with three cows and a horse called Rosa (”Dew” in Ukrainian). In 2020 Mrs Nazarenko and her husband Andriy inherited the 400-hectare (1,000-acre) farm, now named Rosa after that founding horse. Early this year they took out a substantial loan to cover fertiliser for the coming spring-wheat crop.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “After the pestilence, after the war…”
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