Patrick Cockburn | Kurds are suffering the greatest collateral damage form the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees attract global attention, but the Ukraine war has opened the door wide to the mass expulsion of two million Syrian Kurds, which is likely to take place in the coming months. Turkey is threatening to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from northern Syria which it began five years ago.

UNICEF reports that every minute a child is pushed into hunger in fifteen countries most ravaged by the global food crisis. Although exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, food price inflation and growing global hunger are systemic problems with deep, decades-old roots. Projections show that by the end of the 21st century, only 14% of nations will be self-sufficient in terms of food production. This bleak forecast demands that we radically transform the world food system.