Food crisis: Germany’s special pat • Table.Briefings

The war in Ukraine has significantly exacerbated the crisis on the global food market. The EU Commission wants to remedy the situation and, among other things, temporarily allow the agricultural use of ecological fallow land. Almost all EU countries are making use of this. Germany is not one of them. This is met with criticism.

The number of people experiencing acute famine around the world rose by more than a quarter last year. This is according to a report by the Global Network Against Food Crises, which was founded in 2016 by the EU, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program WFP. According to the Global Report on Food Crises, released Wednesday, about 193 million people in 53 countries did not have enough to eat in 2021, 40 million more than in the previous record year of 2020.

Food crisis: Germany’s special path in agricultural policy

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