{"id":82246,"date":"2022-03-03T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=82246"},"modified":"2022-03-03T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:09:11","slug":"ukraine-war-threatens-to-make-bread-a-luxury-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/82246-ukraine-war-threatens-to-make-bread-a-luxury-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war threatens to make bread a luxury in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-52.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine and Russia provide more than a quarter of the world&#8217;s wheat exports, and the war has sent global prices to a 13-year high, causing alarm in Middle Eastern nations that rely on imports.<br>\u201cIt\u2019s already too expensive for us, so I can\u2019t imagine what will happen when the prices jump even further,\u201d llham, a Yemeni citizen, told Reuters.<br>Elsewhere in the food-poor region, shoppers in Lebanon tried to stock up on bread early to avoid higher prices, while bakers in Egypt said they were already feeling the pinch of higher flour costs.<br>Across the Middle East and North Africa, fallout on food prices from the war in Ukraine could drive millions more into \u201cfood poverty\u201d, said the WFP\u2019s senior regional spokesperson, Abeer Etefa.<br>The region is particularly vulnerable to rises in the cost of basic foods due to inadequate local production and high rates of poverty, with anger over food costs fuelling the \u201cArab Spring\u201d protests in 2011.<br>Yemen, which is almost entirely dependent on food imports, buys at least 27% of its wheat from Ukraine and 8% from Russia.<br>Seven years of conflict have battered Yemen\u2019s economy, hitting employment and more than doubling food prices &#8211; leaving more than half of the nation\u2019s 30 million people hungry, according to the International Rescue Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Russia provide more than a quarter of the world&#8217;s wheat exports, and the war has sent global prices to a 13-year high, causing alarm in Middle Eastern nations that rely on imports.\u201cIt\u2019s already too expensive for us, so I can\u2019t imagine what will happen when the prices jump even further,\u201d llham, a Yemeni &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":82256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[2890,2889,942,1845],"class_list":["post-82246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-bread","tag-luxury","tag-middle-east","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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