Ukraine's soil has been devastated. Britain hopes fixing it will lower food prices

Ukraine's soil has been devastated. Britain hopes fixing it will lower food prices

Within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 the impact of the war on global food prices was being felt across the world. As a major exporter of wheat and other grains, Ukraine is commonly referred to as “the breadbasket of Europe” and produced six per cent of calories traded on the world market before the invasion. But the war has devastated its farms; swathes of land have been turned into battlefields and soil has been contami…