WFP warns on impact of global hunger from dam destruction
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned of negative consequences for hunger worldwide following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine.
The head of the WFP’s Berlin office, Martin Frick said on Wednesday, “The massive flooding is destroying newly planted grain and with it hope for 345 million hungry people around the world for whom grain from Ukraine is a lifesaver.”
Following the dam’s destruction in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukraine’s agriculture ministry expects some 10,000 hectares of agricultural land on the northern bank of the Dnipro in the Kherson region to be flooded, according to initial estimates.
The ministry announced on its website on Tuesday evening that, on the southern bank, in the Russian-occupied region, many times this area will be flooded, Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the dam’s destruction.
Frick is not, however, expecting further food price inflation, noting that, “World food prices are still at a 10-year high.
“We cannot afford any more suffering.”
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