The Brief – Global food insecurity is here to stay

While fighting Vladimir Putin’s disinformation war about the impact of sanctions on the global food supply, we should not fall into the other conceptual trap: that food insecurity will disappear once we leave the war behind.

Only two years ago, EU Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius shocked agriculture stakeholders by saying that food security was no longer a major concern for Europe.

Highly criticised back then, those words did not prove to be wrong.

The continent’s supply chain survived a considerable shock with the pandemic and is now showing resilience: Despite a war raging at its gates, the availability of food is not really at stake. (...)