Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Can the War in Ukraine Cause a Famine in Africa?" video.

  1. In 2021 Nigeria imported over 3 billion dollars in wheat. This year Nigeria is expected to import 6 million metric tons of wheat (grains according to another source). Just because you saw people in Nigeria eating cassava doesn't mean that Nigeria doesn't import wheat and it certainly doesn't mean that other African countries aren't importing wheat. In the 2021-22 year Ukraine exported over 6 million tons of wheat to Africa.
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  2. As much as to save Ukrainians from months and years of suffering and to teach Russia to stop invading countries NATO should have got involved in the Ukraine war to quickly destroy the terrorist Russian invaders to ensure that disruption to grain production and supply to poorer countries was very short-lived. I fear that with the war very possibly going into 2024 with grain and sunflower oil and fertilizer exports reduced the war may cause even more suffering and death in the Middle East and in Africa than it is in Ukraine. Though tragically, unless Ukraine carries out an amazingly successful counter offensive the war will likely go on until Russia goes broke which won't happen until the end of this year at the earliest. Also, last year Canada's Prime Minister said one day that given the war Canada would do what it could to maximize grain production in 2022. One farmer was not impressed by that comment and said "What is he talking about? We work to maximize grain production every year". In other words it can be hard for other grain producing countries to quickly increase production to make up for decreased exports from Ukraine and Russia.
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