Trade and Food Security– #1, May, 2022

Overview

Food security refers to the availability of food and one’s access to it; trade plays an important role in ensuring a nation’s food security. Trade can be viewed as connecting nations with plenty of food with those that do not have enough. In that context, stabilising the interconnectedness aids food security. In 2020, more than 800 million people were estimated to be suffering from hunger. Price hikes picked up steam in early 2022, even before the spillovers from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The impact of the war in Ukraine added risk to global food security, with food prices likely to remain high for the foreseeable future and is expected to push millions of more people into acute food insecurity. Therefore, this ONW has reviewed and compiled various relevant articles in print and electronic media on how trade instability is threatening global food security.