Impact on the global food market could cause an additional 7.6 million to 13.1 million people to go hungry : UN

It is 19th anniversary of US war in Iraq also, that consumed around 3L humans out of which more than two lac were civilians & today:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has trapped a critical share of the world’s food and fertilizer, sending prices soaring & rise in world hunger.

Since last month, wheat prices have increased by 21 percent, barley by 33 percent and some fertilizers by 40 percent. Compounded with the pandemic and China’s worst wheat crop in decades, officials are warning that conditions could deteriorate. Earlier this month, the U.N. said that the war’s impact on the global food market could cause an additional 7.6 million to 13.1 million people to go hungry. ( New York Times.)