Head of U.N. World Food Program on Shortages: 'Famine', 'Destabilization', 'Mass Migration'

The unprovoked war in Ukraine is disrupting a major contributor to the world food supply, and that will have repercussions far beyond Ukraine’s farm fields, experts predict.

David Beasley, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme, said Ukraine grows enough food to feed 400 million people around the planet — until Russia invaded the country, that is.

“If we don’t get the farmers back in the fields, not just a few, but all the farmers back into the fields so that can plant, they can put fertilizer out, they can harvest — and then, equally as important, is, we’ve got to get the ports open again,” Beasley told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”