Ukraine and the global food supply crisis

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind talk with Washington Post economic columnist Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) about the global food supply crisis spinning out of the war in Ukraine. The crisis is so bad that the United Nations said it could be the worst shortage since World War II. What, if anything, can be done? Dylan, Dara, and Heather discuss how we got here and the costs of potential solutions. References: The war in Ukraine is triggering a global food crisis. Here’s how the U.S. can help. A global famine looms. The U.S. could prevent it. How war in Ukraine is making people hungry in the Middle East Russian Blockade Prompts Ukraine to Find New Ways to Shift Vital Wheat Exports Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
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1:00.0	I'm so used to TV where they're like, I need to cut you off so you have to like, not.
1:03.0	Yeah. Thanks for having your other. You seem really mad about it.
1:07.0	But I'm not.
1:08.0	Well, at least just stalked out of the studio so I suppose we have to end today.
1:31.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the weeds. I'm your host Dylan Matthews and today I am joined by my regular co-host Darryl Lind.
1:37.0	Hello.
1:38.0	And the Washington Post editorial writer Heather Long.
1:41.0	Hi.
1:42.0	Heather's been one of my favorite econ reporters for a long time. I'm incredibly psyched to have her here to discuss a really important problem.
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