The war in Ukraine’s interruption to wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other staples has raised already high global food prices.
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday met with Ukrainian refugees and stressed the need to confront Russian brutality as she visited Poland ahead of a meeting of finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies.
Yellen applauded Poland for helping refugees fleeing the fighting and for working with neighbouring countries to find ways to get Ukraine’s wheat and other critical food supplies to the world. She thanked the Polish for responding to “rising food insecurity” exacerbated by the war.
“The devastation in Ukraine in the past months reminds us not to take our next meal for granted, and how quickly events can take a turn for the worse,” Yellen said at a visit to the World Central Kitchen site in Warsaw.
