Oceans of Grain

A Book Review in IMF Blog here. The book was published two days before the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It was on the history of wheat grain and how it actually shaped the world. An excerpt from the book below: 

"War and hunger are key themes throughout Scott Reynolds Nelson’s history of how wheat feeds the world. From Nelson’s first research visit to Odesa in 2011, just as bread riots sparked the Arab Spring that toppled governments from Tunisia to Egypt, he pivots back 12,000 years to the genesis of Europe’s breadbasket, in what are now Ukraine and Russia, and the ancient grain trade routes that later fed the continent’s cities and armies."