The New York Times asks under the headline “Where are Ukraine’s ships going” and answers in the text: “Two to Turkey. One to England. One to Ireland. Others to Italy and China. None to Yemen, Ethiopia or others facing catastrophic levels of hunger.”
This after “Zelenski told the president of Botswana that he was ‘ready to be the guarantor of the world’s food security'”. But the American ill will with the agreement that freed the ships is not new – and it refers to the fact that the US stayed out of the negotiation.
The search for food security alternatives continues, with an eye now on Brazil and its neighbors. In the German Der Spiegel, also with a question-title: “What can wheat from the tropics do?” (above). The extensive report highlights that “in Brazil, the cultivation of new varieties that grow even in the heat is booming”.
The country “wants to show itself as a solution to the world food crisis”. Listening to the president of the state-owned company, the magazine says that “the wheat developed by Embrapa could very well be grown in sub-Saharan Africa”.
The Chinese portal Guancha publishes an even more extensive analysis by the Liaowang Institute, a “think tank” linked to Xinhua, with yet another question-title: “Can the ‘breadbasket of the world’ make up for the gap in global food supply?”. It is a reference to Mercosur.
It analyzes statements by the Uruguayan chancellor, that he is going to pressure the bloc for a free trade agreement with China, and an interview by agronomist José Giacomo Baccarin to Jornal da Unesp, about the effect of exports on the domestic cost of food.
He says that “in fact, these countries themselves face hunger problems”, hence possible pressures to limit sales. Despite them, Mercosur “is still the world’s main source of food” and “China must take steps in advance to strengthen cooperation.”
CHANCES OF ELECTION
On Bloomberg, prices in Brazil had the biggest drop since 1980 “after Bolsonaro cut rates to boost his chances of re-election”. He stresses that “even so, inflationary pressures remain. The cost of food rose 1.3%, with milk rising 25.46%”.
MULTIPOLARITY
Bringing together three researchers from each country, “think tanks” from Delhi and Brasília launched “India and Brazil in the Multilateral Global Order”, with studies to expand, based on “shared multipolarity perceptions”, the “strategic partnership” established in 2006 .
