David Beasley

The question to me, to you is how quickly can you react in the major producing countries to offset not just Ukraine, but the crises that we are facing around the world.

Had it not been for the United States, the taxpayers of this country, we would have had mass famine.

If we get the resources we need, just like we did over the last 2 years, even with COVID economic crippling effect, we were able to avert famine and destabilization and mass migration because the United States Government responded along…

if you don't have food security, you are not going to have any other security.

Whether this precarious situation turns into a true global famine depends largely on what the United States, European Union, China and other large and wealthy nations do now.

Food can't be weaponized. It just cannot.

I have made requests straight to President Putin that the world's famines are in your hands right now and you need to open up these ports.

If we are able to feed 200 million people, that means that we can actually cut hunger in Africa by 80 percent.

Russia is using hunger as a weapon of war, and Congress is on record kind of condemning the use of hunger as a weapon of war through the recently introduced House Resolution 922.

when it comes to strategic international aid and food security, it is quite a remarkable thing to see everyone come together recognizing the catastrophe that we are facing.

This is as urgent and morally necessary as sending tanks to Ukraine.

We get 50 percent of our grains out of the Ukraine-Russia area. It's going to have a dramatic impact on food cost, shipping cost, oil, and fuel. This is a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe.