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UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage

Front from left, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio, chat prior to a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 24, 2022. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, right, address the media during a joint press conference after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 24, 2022. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, right, address the media during a joint press conference after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 24, 2022. (John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP) German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 24, 2022 on Germany's contribution against the global hunger crisis on the occasion of the International Conference on Food Security at the Federal Press Conference. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday Moscow's claim that Western sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine were to blame for food shortages was “completely untenable." (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP) FILE -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses reporters during a news conference in New York, United States, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces 'catastrophe' because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)