Blinken Announces $215 Million for Global Emergency Aid to Ease Food Shortages

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the United States will be offering $215 million in emergency assistance to ease worldwide food shortages, worsened by the Ukraine war and resulting supply chain disruptions.

“Today, given the urgency of the crisis, we’re announcing another $215 million in new emergency food assistance. And we’ll do much more. We expect our Congress very soon to approve approximately $5.5 billion in additional funding for humanitarian assistance and food security,” Blinken said at the Food Security Ministerial in the United Nations headquarters.

The $5.5 billion is part of the $40 billion taxpayer-funded Ukraine aid bill passed in the House on May 10 and the Senate on Monday, and is currently on its way to Biden’s desk.

Blinken added that governments and organizations around the world need to combine their efforts in convincing Russia to allow for food and vital supplies to safely leave Ukraine.

“There are an estimated 22 million tons of grain sitting in silos in Ukraine right now, food that could immediately go toward helping those in need if it can simply get out of the country,” Blinken said.

Ukraine is one of the world’s top producers of agricultural commodities like wheat, maize, rapeseed, sunflower seeds, and sunflower oil.

Blockage of ports have contributed to a global shortage of supplies and have exacerbated food prices that rose at their fastest pace on record in March, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), rising 13 percent over the month to 159.3 points.

The Russian invasion “has only made an already dire situation significantly worse, with as many as 40 million people projected to be pushed into poverty and food insecurity through the end of the year,” said USAID in a press release on May 18.

The $215 million is expected to “expand emergency food security operations in several countries already facing food insecurity as a result of conflict, drought, and other natural disasters, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Yemen.”

By Naveen Athrappully

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