The Diplomat
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, received yesterday at La Moncloa the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rebeca Grynspan, with whom he discussed the need to combat food insecurity and the shortage of food products caused by the war of Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime in Ukraine.
During the meeting, according to Moncloa, the President of the Government invited Grynspan -former Ibero-American Secretary General (SEGIB) and current coordinator of the UN Global Crisis Response Group on food, energy and finance- to participate in the Summit on Food Security which he himself will chair on September 20, in the margins of the UN General Assembly, together with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel; the President of Senegal, Macky Sall; and the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
Currently, 276 million people worldwide are severely food insecure, a figure that could rise to 323 million by 2022. Russia and Ukraine together account for 28% of global wheat exports and 15% of corn, and Ukraine produces half of the world’s sunflower oil.
