by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n
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All eyes are on Russia<\/strong>, but this time the war has nothing to do with it. Another phenomenon, which is affecting the country’s agricultural areas generating understandable concern, in fact, is also attracting the attention of observers: drought<\/strong>. “Low level of moisture reserves in soil in Russia’s southern breadbasket poses risks for the 2023 grain crop of the world’s largest wheat exporter,” Reuters writes<\/a>, quoting the words of Roman Nekrasov, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture.<\/p>\n A prospect, in short, that could create further tension on the global food market, already affected<\/a> by the effects of the Ukraine<\/strong> invasion and, more generally, by the bullish commodity spiral in place since 2021.<\/p>\n