Agriculture committee  Regarding Canadian production, I would propose to get back to you or to have Agriculture Canada officials speak to that. What we do, though, with our international assistance funding, is assist countries to improve their own production, whether through the provision of funding

Agriculture committee  It's an excellent question. The way in which we provide humanitarian assistance is that we begin the year with a certain amount of money, which is just over $600 million. We allocate much of that early in the year. Then as new crises emerge, or new needs emerge, we have a numbe

Agriculture committee  Sorry, just to clarify. You said, in Ukraine?

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. I would just say that in the amount of money we have contributed to Ukraine, we are one of the leading donors on the humanitarian front. We continue, as I said, to do about close to $100 million in direct food assistance and then another $140-million plus to support

Agriculture committee  There are layers of vulnerability that various countries have, but certainly the ones that are at acute risk, either because of a shortage of food or a shortage of fertilizers and increasing prices in both cases, are countries like Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Mali, South Sudan and Eth

Agriculture committee  I think what I would agree with is that one of the potential consequences of the conflict, the blockading of the Ukrainian ports and Russia's own actions in limiting its exports of fertilizer and its grains, is that it can have destabilizing effects in all parts of the world, par

Agriculture committee  I don't know if Tara will be able to answer that, but I will let her take a shot at it.

Agriculture committee  I cannot answer it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Agriculture committee  Let me take that and respond from a couple of perspectives. First, in terms of our response globally, we have disbursed more than $500 million in humanitarian assistance, the vast majority of that food assistance to countries around the world, many of which you mentioned. We als

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Your study on global food insecurity is timely, because the world is truly in the midst of a serious food crisis. After decades of steady decline, the trend when it comes to the global hunger problem has reversed since 2015, primarily due to clim

Afghanistan committee  Yes, we have taken a number of mitigation measures. Just to clarify, we're working primarily with UN institutions, as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross. We use a variety of [Technical difficulty—Editor]