Russia and Ukraine’s war over grain

The war that is keeping Ukrainian grain from the world.

A dockyard worker watches as barley grain is mechanically poured into a 40,000 ton ship at a Ukrainian agricultural exporter's ship in Nikolaev, Ukraine.
A dockyard worker watches as barley grain is mechanically poured into a 40,000-tonne ship at a Ukrainian agricultural exporter's shipment terminal in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv [Vincent Mundy/Reuters]

Ukraine’s grain, 10% of the global supply, is stopped at Ukraine’s ports. The EU’s chief of foreign affairs is calling it a war crime by Russia but Russia says Ukraine is to blame.  What is causing the stoppage?  We hear from farmers harvesting the grain and the people trying to feed the world about what happened to Ukrainian grain and what can be done about it.

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This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Alexandra Locke, Ruby Zaman, Ney Alvarez, Negin Owliaei, and Malika Bilal. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad.

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Source: Al Jazeera