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There are more than 30,000 edible plants in the world. This is one tenth of all plants that grow on Earth. Such diversity creates the illusion that humanity has variability in the formation of the ration and in case of the absence of one category, it can be easily replaced by other 29,999 categories. Why are things different and what can exactly fill the world food market? How important is Ukraine's role and who is more at risk of remaining hungry in the current environment, Anna Kovalchuk, expert of the “Ukrainian Thought Factory” analytical cluster, shares her thoughts with Mind.
According to the results of the year 2021, Ukraine is among the top 3 global exporters of corn with a rate of 25 million tons and the top 5 suppliers of wheat with a rate of 20+ million tons. It is estimated that these amounts of food are present in the nutrition of 400 million people. The total amount of world calories that are generated by the Black Sea region is 12%. More accurately, they were generated.
