464 - How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Causing a Global Food Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Ukraine's strangled food exports of commodities like wheat and sunflower oil are disrupting food supplies and causing food insecurity around the world. William Masters, professor of food economics and policy at Tufts University, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these and other consequences of the war for food, in the United States and internationally. They also discuss short- and long-term solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.4 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. And today our topic is food security, |
| 0:49.0 | specifically the impact of war in Ukraine on the global food supply. Dr. Josh Sharstein speaks to William Masters, |
| 0:56.3 | Professor of Food Economics and Policy at Tufts University. Let's listen. |
| 1:02.1 | Professor Masters, thanks so much for joining me on public health on call to talk about the war in |
| 1:07.4 | Ukraine and its impact on the food supply around the world. Could you start by introducing yourself to our audience? |
| 1:14.6 | Yes, thanks. Josh, thank you for hosting this. |
| 1:18.6 | So I'm William Masters. I'm a professor of food economics at the Freedman School of Nutrition at Tuft University. |
| 1:24.6 | I lead a big project called Food Prices for Nutrition, where we look at prices around the world, |
| 1:29.5 | the diet costs, affordability, |
| 1:32.0 | very much issues of the day. |
| 1:34.3 | So as soon as you think about Ukraine and food, |
| 1:38.9 | what comes to your mind? |
| 1:41.0 | Wheat and sunflower oil. |
| 1:43.9 | So US and the world agricultural system is quite highly specialized. |
| 1:48.8 | And it turns out that region of the world has just tremendously deep, rich soils, good moisture. |
| 1:54.6 | Wheat's a pretty high value crop. They also got specialized in sunflower oil, as I said. |
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