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Nadja runs a 4,000-hectare farm near Mykolaiv and has to steer her tractor through the shell casings lying in her field. For many farmers in Ukraine the war means daily danger to their lives whilst working on the fields, but the harvested grain rots away in their silos while starvation reigns in other parts of the world.
Closed and bombed ports in Ukraine, destroyed bridges and mined fields are causing the fragile global supply chain to break down. On the stock exchanges, the price of wheat is reaching a historic high of over $500 per ton. As a result, more and more people in the countries of the global South have no access to food. A global downward spiral is looming.
