As the Russian military intervention in Ukraine continues to disrupt access to food commodities, Algeria is expected to have sufficient wheat reserves to last for the rest of 2022. But a drawn-out crisis will eventually put pressure on the country’s wheat supply and access.
At the start of the war, authorities moved quickly to reassure the population. In early March, Algeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Mohamed Abdelhafid Henni, stated, “Algeria has taken all measures to ensure that the national market is covered and fully satisfying all citizens’ grain needs” adding that the country’s stocks were “sufficient until the end of the current year and will not be affected by the changes occurring in the world.”
