The managing director of the Italian Supply Chain Luigi Scordamaglia
Businesses close due to inflation
“The worse has yet to come unfortunately, inflation could to blow up between August And September. Today one out of 10 agricultural businesses and three out of 10 agri-food companies are forced to close because they are unable to cope with increases in production costs, energy leavened by 650%“. The councilor writes it in a note delegate from Production chain Italy Luigi Scordamaglia.
Who then adds: “The lack of matter first is turning a blind eye toEU on the entrance of products outside standardto which land poorer families will have to turn for their consumption: thus the food social gap widens, the gap between those who can afford quality food and who doesn’tand this jeopardizes the social cohesion of Village“.
Italian food safety has been neglected
“There war in Ukraine – he adds again Scordamaglia – it is a fuse that ignites under a situation of food insecurity for some time neglected “. The blockade of the Mar Blackthe stop at sowing in Ukraine, the lack of fertilizers for the Russian bloc and now also the Indian protectionist measures – he adds – “are the straw that makes overflow the jar: the our the continent has been undergoing a process of dismantling its production for some time agri-foodas well as had done with the energy sector, putting our food security at risk “.
The most serious agri-food crisis in recent decades
“We are ahead to the most serious agri-food crisis of recent decades – continues Scordamaglia – which risks reverberating on the world order, primarily in Africa and in Medium Orient, Villages also dependent on 100% of the wheat coming from it from Ukrainea link on which the stability of their governments also depends“. And he concludes:” When the China it stores 60% of the world’s cereals and invests 7 billion dollars in Algeria to produce fertilizers through which to control food production in Africa it is clear that the geopolitics of food is no longer a secondary issue “.
