Zach Helder

Proud Kansan, Bluegrass hobbyist, food & agriculture policy at @PrincetonSPIA. Formerly @RepDavids

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“Every country has an interest in banning food weaponization. For the United States, food weaponization around the world poses a security risk as well as an economic threat, with the potential to harm American farmers and consumers.”
https://t.co/F0ZSzDmSeq

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia has taken food weaponization to a new level. The Kremlin is not only targeting Ukrainian agricultural capacity, but threatening the broader global food supply.”
https://t.co/YfheXrAYvd

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

Amid Putin’s assault on Ukrainian agricultural capacity, the need for an international treaty prohibiting food weaponization is increasingly clear, write @ZachHelder, @MikeEspyMS, @DanRGlickman, Mike Johanns, and Devry Boughner Vorwerk.
https://t.co/P1zHhPQgIS

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The international community’s long-standing moral objection to starvation as a method of warfare needs a new mechanism of enforcement and accountability: a treaty banning the use of food as a weapon.”
https://t.co/fb2yYoBNJE

[Zach Helder @ZachHelder]

After over a year of deeply studying this issue, Secretary @DanRGlickman, @SecJohanns, Sec. @MikeEspyMS, Devry Boughner Vorwerk, and I are calling for a treaty to finally end food weaponization. Give our essay in Foreign Affairs a read below:

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“In an interdependent global economy, food weaponization in one region could affect the food security of all. Moscow has exploited this interdependence, deliberately disrupting the food supply to further the Kremlin’s military objectives.”
https://t.co/fiQkcByWaO

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“In an interdependent global economy, food weaponization in one region could affect the food security of all. Moscow has exploited this interdependence, deliberately disrupting the food supply to further the Kremlin’s military objectives.”
https://t.co/fiQkcByWaO