Anne-Cécile Suzanne is a mixed farming farmer in Orne and a graduate of Sciences Po Paris.
The crisis in Ukraine makes the corridors of the Agricultural Show rustle.
Breeders look worried at the evolution of the price of wheat.
Cereal growers, who could be elated by the prices reached in recent days by the golden-coloured cereal, nevertheless warn of the unsustainability of such a situation when the price of fertilizers, depending on that of gas and oil, reached peaks.
This is a time of perplexity and uncertainty, both about the cost of our food and about the wavering peace in Europe.
And it goes without saying that the two are linked, because, as Russia grabs the agricultural lands of Ukraine, it is acquiring a major power over a whole part of the world: the power of hunger.
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