A growing global wheat crisis: securing current & future supply

The war in Ukraine has negatively impacted the lives of Ukrainian citizens as well as the livelihoods of nations and people around the world. Shelled fields, seizure or damage to agricultural property and compromise of port infrastructure in Ukraine have destroyed crops, prevented spring planting and are likely to have a major impact on the harvest of 6 million hectares of wheat planted in farmers’ fields across Ukraine. This effects the downstream availability of wheat within Ukraine as well as onward into the global wheat export market. This report was provided as input to the Wheat Initiative July Newsletter and highlights wheat impacts of the crisis and reflects areas of work required to stabilize future wheat.