Project Report: “Year Three of Russia’s Aggression – Production and Trade Risks for Global Food Security”
Today we publish the last report on the outcome of the project “Repairing Broken Food Trade Routes Ukraine – Africa” (the project has come to an end in December 2023) . This report covers:
- Production and trade risks for global food security
- Investment risks for Ukraine
- Diversification and processing as partial solutions to the export problems
- Importance of Ukraine’s victory for global food security
The role of the World Trade Institute (WTI) in the MATS project is to identify and explore “broken” Ukrainian-African food trade routes due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Starting with a food trade flow chart pre- and post-24 February 2022, it will assess, first, whether Ukrainian (or African) traders can again supply these products (Output 1). Failing that, whether the new EU-financed “Crisis Management” (or another) programme can possibly make up for lost Ukrainian agrifood exports (Output 2). It will also identify alternative exporters (if any) that might already have filled in agrifood demand in Africa (Output 3). Importantly, the Project also looks at the potential effect of these developments on competing farm production in Africa (Output 4).
For further information and/or offer to assist in project implementation, please write to Christian Häberli (Christian.Haeberli@wti.org) or to Bogdan Kostetsky (bogdan.kostetsky@gmail.com).
You can download the report here