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ISTANBUL—The United Nations and Turkey on Sunday scrambled to rescue an agreement that allowed Ukraine to ship grain via the Black Sea, a day after Russia suspended the deal in a move that threatens global food prices and puts pressure on Ukraine’s allies.U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres was working Sunday to end the Russian suspension, a U.N. spokesman said, and the Turkish defense ministry said it was in talks with Russia to rescue the agreement. No ships will leave Ukraine while…

Officials from the International Monetary Fund said the governments of poorer countries need better ways to restructure their debt loads totaling billions of dollars to survive a cost-of-living and hunger crisis that is quickly taking root around the world. “The world has seen extraordinary upheaval,” Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said Friday, speaking at the closing session of the international financial institution’s annual meetings in Washington. Officials from…

WASHINGTON—Global economic growth is likely to slow next year more than previously expected, the International Monetary Fund said, warning living conditions will worsen as soaring inflation harms people’s lives around the world.The IMF attributed the weaker outlook primarily to the effects of inflation, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the slowdown in China brought on by frequent Covid-19 lockdowns and problems in its property sector.  The global economy will expand 2.7% in 2023, down from 3.2% this year and 6% in 2021,…

WASHINGTON—Sharp rises in food and fertilizer prices caused by the war in Ukraine are creating the worst global food crisis since at least 2008, putting the lives and livelihood of 345 million people in immediate danger, the International Monetary Fund said Friday. While the food shock is touching nations in various parts of the world, the worst impact is felt by 48 mostly low-income countries, many of which depend on imports from Ukraine and Russia. About half of these countries, such…

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to curtail the export of grain from Ukraine, charging falsely that the West has been deceiving the developing world by largely keeping for itself food stocks aimed at averting a global hunger crisis.Mr. Putin told a plenary session at an economic forum in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok that under a grain deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey only two of 87 ships, carrying 60,000 tons of food, had so far gone to the World Food…

U.S. food and beverage companies are racing to keep operations running during a nationwide shortage of carbon dioxide.Companies including Tyson Foods Inc. TSN -1.30% and Kraft Heinz Co. KHC -0.23% have been searching for carbon dioxide as supply disruptions this summer exacerbated existing shortages, threatening production of goods from cold cuts to beer. Carbon dioxide is widely used throughout food and beverage…

Falling prices for commodities such as wheat or corn are set to slow consumer food price increases, easing pressure on a major driver of global inflation.But economists warn it is too soon to declare victory. Agricultural markets remain volatile and the continuing war in Ukraine, combined with unusually hot and dry weather in Europe and parts of the U.S., could bring new disruptions to food supplies. “We’ll see certainly in the short run adjustments in prices,” said Rob Vos, an economist at the International Food Policy…

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine is preparing to send its first grain shipments since the start of Russia’s invasion under a deal aimed at easing a looming global food crisis.The shipments, which Ukrainian officials said would leave in the next few days, will be the first test for a deal settled last week to allow Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, to begin shipping some 20 million metric tons that the invasion has trapped in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on…

ISTANBUL—Russia and Ukraine agreed Friday to resume exports of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea for the first time since the Russian invasion, a deal aimed at freeing up vital supplies amid fears of a global food crisis. The deal is the product of months of diplomacy led by the United Nations and Turkey, both of which are signatories to a pair of parallel agreements with Russia and Ukraine. It raises hopes that grain stocks could soon be shipped out from Ukrainian ports, after the war caused a…