...
expose the vulnerabilities
of low-income nations. However, India has managed to support its large population and provide food assistance to countries like Egypt and its neighbours thanks to its surplus production and steady supply of fertilizers from Russia.
At the same time, India’s firm stance on food security has faced challenges. Prime Minister Modi
announced
a review of World Trade Organization regulations on food exports, showing India's determination. The rise in wheat exports—from 2.1 million tonnes in 2020–21 to 7.85 million tonnes ...
... Faso to Niger. Trade and economic cooperation are also expanding: since September 2023, several Russian private and state-owned companies have signed agreements with the AES countries in areas such as mining, industrial construction and others.
While Russia focuses primarily on food security (Moscow
shipped
50,000 tonnes of free grain to the Sahel in 2023) and developing the digital economy, China and Turkey are making inroads into energy production and mining precious and rare-earth metals. Moreover, Niger’s agreement to ...
... problems caused by food shortages.
Diversifying food import sources and creating a domestic agricultural base
In any case, a food security system that guarantees the nation’s sovereignty cannot be built without diversifying supply sources and obtaining ... ... work in the current conditions, solutions more often depend on bilateral agreements at the national level.
For this reason, Russia’s recent free shipments of grain to Africa’s most vulnerable countries may be seen not only as acts of friendship, ...
... African and Latin American markets has drastically burgeoned. Yet Egypt, one of the world’s largest importers of wheat, has continued robust purchases of the Russian grain, and its state grain company GASC alone
purchased
about 480 thousand tons of Russian wheat.
The food security of Sub-Saharan Africa causes concern. According to statistics, the arable area per unit of population has decreased by 21% over the last decade in the countries of this region, and 40% of arable land has been degraded by heavy metals accumulated ...
... the instability of the two currencies since the mid-2010s has slowed down the progress here. At a time when Brazil cannot buy Russian fertilizers, essential for its agro-industrial complex, because of sanctions, the task of increasing the independence ... ... important.
Undoubtedly, the new geopolitical realities recalibrate the agenda for BRICS, making certain initiatives in finance or food security urgent for all member countries. These initiatives have the potential to drive a new phase of growth for the association....
