Resources 2022

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2025 estimates that about 295.3 million people in 53 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

PUBLICATION | 17 Mar 2026

Crop Prospects and Food Situation #1, March 2026

The triannual Crop Prospects and Food Situation report provides a forward-looking global analysis of cereal production, market trends and acute food security conditions, with a particular attention...

PUBLICATION | 09 Mar 2026

The Russia-Ukraine War and Global Food Security: Impacts Four Years Later

This report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies analyses how dynamics of war are affecting global agricultural markets and global food security, as well as the Ukrainian and Russian...

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Nature - High energy and fertilizer prices are more damaging than food export curtailment from Ukraine and Russia for food prices, health and the environment (23rd December 2022)

CIDOB - The World in 2023: Ten issues that will shape the international agenda (December 2022)

AMIS - Market Monitor (December 2022)

IFPRI - Where do potash flows from Belarus go and what is happening with competitors (My Fin) (23rd December 2022)

World Bank - A transformed fertilizer market is needed in response to the food crisis in Africa (21st December)

World Bank - Coming Together to Address the Global Food Crisis (19th December 2022)

UNCTAD - A Double Burden: The effects of food price increases and currency depreciations on food import bills (16th December 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update - News (15th December 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update - Publication (15th December 2022)

FAO - Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin #10 (14th December 2022)

FAO - Ukraine: Impact of the war on agriculture and rural livelihoods in Ukraine (December 2022)

IFPRI - The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation (14th December 2022)

EC - G7 Leaders’ Statement (12th December 2022)

Elsevier - The impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food security (9th December 2022)

IMF - Global Food Prices to Remain Elevated Amid War, Costly Energy, La Niña (9th December 2022)

IMF - Macroeconomic Developments and Prospects in Low-Income Countries - 2022 (8th December 2022)

FAO - Crop Prospects and Food Situation #4 (December 2022)

IFPRI - Amid “extraordinary uncertainty” and “precarious” geopolitical conditions, commodity price moves are slow to translate into lower food costs (Farm Policy News) (6th December 2022)

CGIAR - A climate-smart agriculture to resist economic and social turbulences (5th December 2022)

FAO - Cereal Supply and Demand Brief (2nd December 2022)

FAO - Global food prices overall hold steady in November (2nd December 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update (1st December 2022)

EC - DG ECHO Reports on food security - Release nº 3 (November 2022)

IFPRI - Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries (28th November 2022)

EC - Statement by President von der Leyen at the "Grain from Ukraine" Summit (26th November 2022)

Elsevier - Needed global wheat stock and crop management in response to the war in Ukraine (25th November 2022)

World Bank - Food prices eased but risks remain elevated (21st November 2022)

USAID - The United States Announces Additional Funding to Deliver Ukrainian Grain to the World's Most Vulnerable (18th November 2022)

IFPRI - Plant-based diets in Europe can secure food volumes lost to Russia-Ukraine conflict, researchers flag (Food Ingredients First) (18th November 2022)

IFPRI - Russia and Ukraine have renewed the U.N. grain deal. Is it working? (The Washington Post) (17th November 2022)

EC - Food security: Statement by the High Representative on the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (17th November 2022)

Statement by President von der Leyen at the G20 Summit session on food and energy security (15th November 2022)

ECDPM - The EU’s capacity for crisis response: A look at the 2022 food crisis (14th November 2022)

FAO - Global fertilizer markets and policies: a joint FAO/WTO mapping exercise (14th November 202)

IFPRI - Can agricultural exports from Southern Cone countries make up for global supply disruptions arising from the Russia-Ukraine war? (14th November 2022)

EC - G20: €210 million in food assistance for most vulnerable worldwide (14th November 2022)

FAO - Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets (November 2022)

WFP - First shipment of Russian fertilizer marks breakthrough in global supply crunch (12th November 2022)

EC - EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes – Lifeline for Ukrainian economy, key for global food security (12th November 2022)

FAO - Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin #9 (11th November 2022)

FAO - Alarming signs as the global food import bill set to rise to nearly US$2 trillion due to higher prices (11th November 2022)

Wiley - The impacts of price insulation on world wheat markets during the 2022 food price crisis (10th November 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update (10th November 2022)

EC - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Ensuring Availability and Affordability of Fertilizers (9th November 2022)

World Bank - Towards an informed, transparent, and accountable response for global food and nutrition security (9th November 2022)

DEVEX - High fertilizer prices to hit smallholder farmers, IFAD chief warns (9th November 2022)

CGIAR - How sanctions on Russia and Belarus are impacting exports of agricultural products and fertilizer (9th November 2022)

World Bank - Risks in global food markets (9th November 2022)

EC - Questions and Answers: Ensuring the availability and affordability of fertilisers (9th November 2022)

World Bank - Commodity prices eased in October—Pink Sheet (8th November 2022)

AMIS - Agricultural Market Information System - Market Monitor (November 2022)

FAO - Benchmark for world food prices was broadly steady in October (4th November 2022)

FAO - Ukraine: FAO reinforces its presence to optimize technical and humanitarian assistance (4th November 2022)

EC - G7: Foreign Ministers' Statement (4th November 2022

CGIAR - Tackling wheat price rises instigated by conflict (3rd November 2022)

Wiley - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increased the synchronisation of global commodity prices (1st November 2022)

Elsevier - Potential impacts of Ukraine-Russia armed conflict on global wheat food security: A quantitative exploration (1st November 2022)

EC - DG ECHO - Reports on food security (October 2022)

FAO - Ukraine: Rapid Response Plan, March - December 2022: Supporting agricultural production to bolster food availability and access (October 2022)

IFPRI - EXPLAINER: What Russia’s suspension of grain deal could mean (Associated Press) (31st October 2022)

CGIAR - Suspension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative: What has the deal achieved, and what happens now? (31st October 2022)

EU - Russia: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in the UN Black Sea Grain Initiative (31st October 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update (27th October 2022)

World Bank - Currency Depreciations Risk Intensifying Food, Energy Crisis in Developing Economies (26th October 2022)

SciDev.Net - Global starvation looms as food price rises intensify (25th October 2022)

Elsevier - The effects of food export restrictions on the domestic economy of exporting countries: A review (21st October 2022)

FAO - World Food Forum calls to keep trade in fertilizers open and increase their affordability and accessibility for farmers (21st October 2022)

EC - EU Statement – UN General Assembly 5th Committee: Global Food Insecurity revised estimates (21st October 2022)

UNCTAD - A trade hope: The role of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in bringing Ukrainian grain to the world (20th October 2022)

Wiley - The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Food Security (19th October 2022)

CGIAR - G20 Agriculture Ministers Underscore Importance of Food System Sustainability, Open and Fair Trade, and Digital Innovations as Long-Term Food Crisis Responses (18th October 2022)

UNICEF - Child poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia soars by 19 per cent, as Ukraine war and rising inflation drive four million children into poverty (17th October 2022)

World Bank - Annual Meetings 2022: Development in Crisis (16th October 2022)

UNDP - United Nations Development Committee Statement (14th October 2022)

World Bank - Global poverty in the 2020s is on a new, worse course (14th October 2022)

EC - Food security: EU contributes €100 million to IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust to support vulnerable African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (14th October 2022)

World Bank - Food Security Update (13th October 2022)

World Bank - From plant to fork: a rapid assessment of the fertilizer and food crisis in Central America (13th October 2022)