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The first grain shipment to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa in months departed on Monday 1 August, marking an important step forward in the fight to stave off a global food crisis. The shipment is the first to leave a Ukrainian port since the end of February, after Russia invaded Ukraine and blockaded its ports, threatening food supply chains across the world. Russia and Ukraine together account for almost a third of global wheat exports, according to data from UN Comtrade. In 2020 Russia was the single largest supplier of wheat globally, accounting for 19.3 per cent of all imports, while Ukraine was the fifth largest and provided 9.4 per cent of the world’s wheat. A handful of countries depend heavily on Ukrainian imports. In Moldova, for example, 92 per cent of its wheat imports were sourced from Ukraine in 2020, while in Lebanon, it was 81 per cent, according to data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. By contrast the UK sourced around 31,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine that year, which accounted for 1.5 per cent of its total wheat imports. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r

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