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Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine - Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine declared:

"I opened the historic first meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council, initiated on July 22 by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

We discussed Russia's obstruction of free navigation in the Black Sea. The enemy's goal is obvious — to deprive the world of Ukrainian food, thereby creating a global food crisis.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 122.3 points in June 2023, down 1.7 points (1.4 percent) from May, continuing the downward trend and averaging as much as 37.4 points (23.4 percent) below the peak it reached in March 2022.

• To stay on track for no more than 1.5 ̊ global warming, agriculture must slash its emissions by nearly 80%, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company.
• Farmers play a critical role in this process, but financial and other burdens stand in the way of wide-scale adoption of many of the technologies needed to decarbonize the sector.
• A number of measures for decarbonization can assist farmers and at the same time create real business value for others in the agrifood value change, including policymakers, industry players and investors.

The amount of direct damage caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP is at least USD 2 billion. This includes losses in the housing and utilities sector, energy, agriculture, transport, environment, and industry. These data are presented in the first analysis carried out by the KSE Institute, an analytical unit of the Kyiv School of Economics, in cooperation with the Office of the President of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.