Putin is marching on our stomachs

The war in Ukraine is disrupting supplies of wheat, oilseeds and the fertilizer needed to grow them.

Food prices are now rising more rapidly than energy prices, according to economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, as geopolitical instability unwinds the kind of globalization re-established after World War II. The World Bank is warning we may be in for the biggest commodity price shock since the 1970s.

Wheat isn’t the only reason the war in…