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  • Publication | 2022

Response to the Ukraine Crisis: Social Protection for Food Security and Nutrition

Global Food and Nutrition Security

The Ukraine crisis that began on 24 February has not only created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis but a looming increase in food insecurity, in countries both close and far from the theater of war. This comes on the rise in hunger and food insecurity and worsening nutrition situation stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, many food-importing countries are likely to be seriously affected by the disruption in the export of cereals and the expected rise in the price of their food imports from Ukraine and Russia.

Humanitarian and social protection responses will be needed to cushion the negative impact of these developments on the food security and nutritional status of Ukrainians affected by the war as well as of nutritionally vulnerable groups in food-importing countries, particularly in North, East and West Africa as well as in West and Central Asia.