The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva warned that anti-Russian sanctions could lead to civil unrest in the Middle East and elsewhere due to the high cost or inaccessibility of food imports. “When prices jump, and poor people cannot feed their families, they will be on the streets,” Georgieva said at the Doha Forum in Qatar on March 27. “One thing we know about trouble in one place: It travels, it doesn’t stay there.”
Calling for global cooperation to address the crisis in commodity and energy supplies, she said, “Please, work together. Oil producers, gas producers and food producers today are in a position to help reduce this uncertainty.”
