The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on wheat supplies

Ukraine’s wheat fields are the breadbasket of more than just Europe — and the world’s food system is being battered by Russia’s bombs. Arif Husain, chief economist of the World Food Programme, warns of the impact of the loss of wheat and other crops from Ukraine on poorer nations; and Scott Reynolds Nelson, the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of history at the University of Georgia and the author of Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World, walks us through the history of wheat in Russia and Ukraine.