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The Biden administration will spend $282 million on domestic commodities such as wheat as part of a food aid package for Yemen and five African nations experiencing severe drought and food insecurity, USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development said Wednesday.

Global corn and wheat supplies are going to get tighter this year as the invasion of Ukraine threatens to all but halt the country’s ability to plant and harvest corn and wheat in the coming months.

The desert locust, generally considered one of the most devastating pests in the world to agriculture, has been hitting farmers hard in the Horn of Africa as well as the Arabian Peninsula for six months, devouring crops and pasture. With COVID-19, the situation has gone from bad to worse.

Does food security affect national security? Experts at a global food security summit debated the question last week at Virginia's George Mason University.