Food prices soared to record heights in Feb. 2022. But experts don’t expect food shortages to occur in the U.S. Watch the full video here to learn why:
"It's particularly severe because we are just coming out of a recovery from a two-and-a-half-year pandemic that had severe implications on the prices of goods and services as well as the price of commodities," according to Johanna Mendelson-Forman, adjunct professor at the American University in the School of International Service.
Despite the prospect of continued rising prices, however, experts don't expect food shortages to occur in the United States. "It's important to realize that the U.S. doesn't import very much from Ukraine," explained Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
"We may see some shelves that are empty for various kinds of food products like we have for a while now as we recover from the pandemic," said Scott Irwin, chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. "But I can say with some real confidence that in the United States, the average consumer is not going to see a shortage of bread because of what's going on in Ukraine.
Watch the video to find out more about how the war in Ukraine is impacting food availability around the world.
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