Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will try to convince Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin to return to a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis, when the two leaders meet in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday.

Russia should consider the bigger picture of global food crisis and rejoin the deal

The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative is indeed regrettable, but it is not the leading cause of hunger in the world.

But retail prices still unhurt by Russia’s grain deal exit

The deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey last July, aimed to alleviate a global food crisis by allowing Ukrainian grain blocked by the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be exported safely

President Vladimir Putin said this month that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal as he accused the West of cheating Moscow because it still faced obstacles getting its own agricultural goods to world markets.

The Russian side has clearly fulfilled its obligations and the mechanism created is still functioning.