“The full impact of climate change will make the Ukraine crisis’s impact on food prices look like kindergarten,”
The full impact of climate change will make the Ukraine crisis’s impact on food prices look like kindergarten,
Enock Chikava, interim director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for agricultural development on the impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have on the environment.
Enock Chikava, interim director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for agricultural development on the impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have on the environment.
— Enock Chikava
April 2022
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