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The war in Ukraine and its effect on our wheat supply is continuing to get ink in the foreign press this morning: <\/strong>The Madbouly government\u2019s move to ban exports of key staples including wheat, flour and lentils for three months comes as more Arab nations veer towards food protectionism amid the Russia-Ukraine war\u2019s impact on food security, Bloomberg<\/a> reports. The New York Times also name-checks Egypt in a story headlined Ukraine war threatens to cause a global food crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Egypt is the world\u2019s biggest wheat importer<\/strong>, and relies on Russia and Ukraine for more than 80% of its wheat supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The war in Ukraine and its effect on our wheat supply is continuing to get ink in the foreign press this morning: The Madbouly government\u2019s move to ban exports of key staples including wheat, flour and lentils for three months comes as more Arab nations veer towards food protectionism amid the Russia-Ukraine war\u2019s impact on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[72,1416,1095,563],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-544793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","tag-food-protectionism","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-wheat","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f520209a-d53f-4f02-a6c4-c6ce914d953d","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[544768],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nFood prices still topic du jour in the foreign press - 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