War in ‘breadbasket of the world’ threatens food supplies globally

A worker collects Egyptian traditional ‘baladi’ flatbread, at a bakery in Cairo (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine are also threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region known as the “breadbasket of the world”.

Ukrainian farmers have been forced to neglect their fields as millions flee, fight or try to stay alive.