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Export controls risk exacerbating food crisis, WTO chief warns

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says countries with surplus stocks in products like grains should release them on world markets

Governments are risking a repeat of mistakes in previous food crises by imposing export controls amid spiralling commodity and energy prices, the head of the World Trade Organization has said.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who became WTO director-general a year ago, also urged countries to accept a contentious deal over patent waivers for Covid-19 vaccines and said the global supply chain crunch would last much longer than previously thought.

Okonjo-Iweala’s tenure has been marked by successive Covid-19 waves shutting down production and transport, severe congestion in land and sea container traffic, and a rupturing of global energy and food markets caused by the Ukraine war.

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