{"id":163123,"date":"2022-03-17T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=163123"},"modified":"2022-03-17T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:28:03","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-afdb-unveils-1bn-plan-to-boost-wheat-production-avert-food-crisis-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/17\/russia-ukraine-war-afdb-unveils-1bn-plan-to-boost-wheat-production-avert-food-crisis-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: AfDB unveils $1bn plan to boost wheat production, avert food crisis in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African Development Bank (AfDB) has stated that it is planning to raise $1 billion to boost wheat production in Africa to avert potential food shortages arising from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to AfDB&#8217;s president,<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the fund would help 40 million African farmers utilise climate-resilient technologies and increase their output of heat-tolerant wheat varieties and other crops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe are going to be really ramping up our efforts to mobilise that money,\u201d Bloomberg Quint quoted Adesina as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIf there was ever a time that we needed to really drastically raise food production in Africa, for Africa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/03\/akinwumi-adesina-technology-has-improved-food-security-transparency-in-use-of-public-funds\/\">food security<\/a> and to mitigate the impact of this food crisis arising from this war, it is now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to him, wheat imports account for about 90 percent of Africa\u2019s $4 billion trade with Russia and nearly half of the continent\u2019s $4.5 billion trade with Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">TheCable had reported that Russia and Ukraine constituted 23 percent of the global wheat market, worth 206.9 million metric tonnes in 2021, according to the<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/outlooks\/103245\/whs-22b.pdf?v=6914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> US Department of Agriculture<strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Global economic sanctions occasioned by the war in Ukraine upended grain shipments when global stockpiles were already tight, raising the risk of a full-blown hunger crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Adesina said the risks are particularly acute in Africa, where about 283 million people were already going hungry before the onset of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But for Nigeria, where wheat is the third most consumed grain, the protraction of the war could be catastrophic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">By the end of Q3 2021, the data from the NBS showed that Nigeria\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/russia-ukraine-war-may-lead-to-hike-in-prices-of-bread-noodles-in-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imported<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0durum wheat and mackerel worth N88.46 billion and N30.69 billion, respectively, from Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Durum wheat is used for bread-making, and it is the second most cultivated specie of wheat after common wheat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recall that<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the escalation of geopolitical tension in Russia-Ukraine would lead to a hike in food prices, especially on commodities that both countries export to Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to AfDB, the plan is to increase the production of wheat, rice, 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