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一 |     Russian Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev weighed in on the issue of global food security on Friday, warning that a crisis of planetary proportions is taking shape.,“The situation in global markets is difficult, especially for wheat. This season, due to a number of factors, including drought in the US and Europe, floods in Australia and bad weather in India, the global supply of milling wheat will drop. Also, due to climate anomalies, a decrease in the quality of wheat in North America is expected, first and foremost in the United States. All of this, together with logistical restrictions, could lead to serious risks in terms of global food security in the current agricultural year,” Patrushev said, speaking to ministry officials in Bashkiria.,Patrushev updated officials on the state of Russia’s harvesting campaign, saying about 27 percent of the fields have been cultivated, with 55 million tons of grain collected – a good indicator, but far below yields shown a year ago, thanks to a cold spring, poor weather and problems with obtaining parts for foreign-made agricultural equipment.,“Altogether, this creates risks in terms of achieving [the planned] grain harvest of 130 million tons. Of course, we will fully provide for the domestic market, there will not be any problems with this. However, if the planned volumes are not reached, we will have to revise our export target of 50 million tons, and this may have a negative impact on the world grain market,” the minister warned.,Russian Agriculture Ministry Warns of Risks to Global Food Security in Current Crop Year 5 August, 09:08 GMT,Sanctions Food for Thought,The United States and Europe got a rude awakening in the spring when the nations of the Global South refused to join them in slapping sanctions on Russia after it kicked off its special military operation in Ukraine. While the US, Canada, the UK, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand drafted thousands upon thousands of new restrictions against Moscow, not a single country in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, or non-US allied East Asia has joined them so far.,The developing world’s quest for food security, and Russia’s status as a major global exporter of both grains and fertilizers, is undoubtedly an important factor in calculations made by regional leaders when it comes to sanctions.,At the same time, the Global South has not been spared the consequences of the West’s secondary restrictions. African Union chief and Senegalese President Macky Sall outlined the scope of the problem in June, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that sanctions had “aggravated the situation with the supply of grains and fertilizers to African countries,” and sparked “a serious threat to food security” for the continent.,AfricaAnti-Russia Sanctions Left Africa Without Access to Grain and Fertilisers, African Union Chief Says3 June, 11:13 GMT,Notwithstanding concerns about global food security going back to the COVID crisis of 2020 and 2021, which wreaked havoc on supply chains and aggravated economic pain across much of the developing world, the US and its allies unflinchingly and nearly instantaneously slapped agriculture- and fertilizer-related sanctions on Russia and its ally, Belarus, in February and March of 2022.,Oleg Kobiakov, director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Russian liaison office, recently revealed that his agency estimates that some 828 million people were suffering from hunger at the end of 2021, with their numbers increasing by some 150 million people compared to the pre-COVID year 2019. Amid the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis and Western sanctions, Kobiakov stressed the importance of the FAO-proposed international fund to support the export of food, fertilizers, and energy to assist developing countries, particularly in Africa.,Western Sanctions, Global Consequences,The sanctions slapped on Russia in the spring of 2022, which included direct restrictions on food and fertilizer exports, plus efforts to limit Russia’s trade in agricultural commodities with third countries via so-called secondary sanctions on cargo ships or insurance providers, have already had a noticeable impact on food security, not only in the Global South, but the very heart of the so-called "First World" as well.,Earlier this year, German media sounded the alarm after calculating that the country’s farmers stand to lose some three million tons of agricultural output thanks to sanctions. In June, Bild reported that nearly one in six Germans is forced to skip meals thanks to out-of-control hikes in food prices.,In neighboring Poland, local media reported this week that Ukrainian wheat supplies flooding into the country were causing a “catastrophic” dampening of prices for domestic producers. “If the situation doesn’t improve, there will be riots in the countryside!” a farmer in Plonsk told a Wyborcza correspondent.,In Italy, the National Institute of Statistics has reported a double-digit jump in prices for flour and pasta, with prices for the staple components of Italian cooking growing between 18 and 21.5 percent year-on-year in July, and the cost of cooking oil spiking by a whopping 66 percent.,RussiaLIVE UPDATES: First Bulker With Ukrainian Grain Reaches Istanbul2 August, 05:00 GMT,Food insecure regions of the planet have fared even worse. According to a recent estimate by international aid agency Mercy Corps, flour prices in Lebanon, which depends on Russia and Ukraine for over 80 percent of its wheat flower needs, have jumped over 200 percent since the escalation of the Ukraine crisis.,For many countries, the Ukrainian emergency has only served to exacerbate an array of already existing problems. In Morocco, for example, Agriculture Minister Mohammed Sadiki reported in the spring that the country expects to lose up to 53 percent of its grain harvest this year due to the worst drought of the decade. The Horn of Africa faces similar worries amid the worst regional drought in 40 years. In Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, over 18 million people face hunger, and British charitable group Oxfam International fears that as many as 350,000 children could die from malnutrition this year in Somalia alone.,Earlier this year, the UN’s Refugee Agency calculated that the numbers of people forced to flee their homes in search of a better life had reached its highest-ever recorded number, with food scarcity, inflation, and the climate crisis adding to existing hardships and stretching humanitarian resources to the breaking point. According to the World Food Program, the number of people suffering from hunger could increase by 30-50 million people, with the poorest countries of Africa including Somalia, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Congo expected to be hit hardest.,RussiaFighting Africa's Food Crisis: Russia Strengthening Ties and Stretching Helping Hand to Kenya3 August, 10:08 GMT,In June, the WFP warned that in Latin America too, food inflation is threatening to cause a migration wave of Biblical proportions amid calculations that some 14 million people across 13 countries are threatened with “extreme” food insecurity – up from 8.3 million in late 2021, if the current crisis continues.,“All of you are watching caravans, caravans of migrants moving, and before we used to talk about migration from the north of Central America, but now, unfortunately, we talk about migration being hemispheric. We have the whole continent on the move,” WEF Latin America and the Caribbean region coordinator Lola Castro told reporters.,Good for the Goose, But Not the Gander?,Last month, on the heels of the signing of the Russia-Ukraine-UN grain deal, the US Treasury reversed course on a number of food and fertilizer sanctions directives, “clarifying” in a fact sheet that it would no longer threaten secondary restrictions for the purchase or transport of Russian agricultural commodities. For the domestic market, Washington quietly eased restrictions on Russian agricultural products, including fertilizers, back in March, after the domestic farming lobby warned of out-of-control price hikes and possible food shortages.,Brussels, which joined Washington in slapping tough restrictions on Moscow in the spring, did not follow suit in easing them until late last month, after the damage to domestic and international markets had already been done.,WorldEU Reportedly Set to Unfreeze Some Russian Bank Funds for Food, Fertilizer Trade19 July, 10:26 GMT,Biden administration National Economic Council director Brian Deese raised eyebrows late last month when he boasted that compared to the rest of the world, the United States is in a better position to weather the global food security crisis.,“With respect to food, we’re a net exporter of agricultural commodities. Obviously the high prices are hitting Americans very hard, but in a way that is different from some places that are facing famine for example,” Deese said.,Biden economic advisor Brian Deese says the U.S. is doing better economically than other countries because we’re not in a “famine” pic.twitter.com/2JwO7YneOI— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 27, 2022,Biden’s detractors blasted the White House over Deese’s comments, suggesting it was absurd to lower the bar on the administration’s economic performance to the point where it was bragging that "at least the US isn’t facing famine." However, in the broader scheme of things, and amid the global food security crisis artificially exacerbated by Washington and its allies using sanctions, Deese isn’t wrong, with other countries, including many of the US’ allies, suffering much more.,Quo Vadis?,Serbia, home to the so-called “Balkan route” for migration during the 2015 European migrant crisis, has recently reported a major uptick in immigration amid the global food crisis.,On July 20, Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and Migration Vladimir Cucic indicated that the number of migrants traveling through Serbia had jumped 55 percent in 2022, with the number of people from Africa, Asia and the Middle East using the country as a transit state reaching 68,000, and expected to hit 100,000 before the end of the year. Cucic is confident that the global food crisis is directly responsible for the migration uptick, which he said has hit Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, parts of India and other Asian nations hardest.,“Hunger is forcing more and more people to move on out. You’re not going to wait and see how your children die from hunger, you will give them everything you have and tell them "get out of here!’” the official stressed.,UK Home Office Fails to Handle Increased Flow of Migrants Via English Channel21 July, 18:30 GMT,Food scarcity has been a factor driving revolutions, coups, wars, and civil unrest throughout human history, and has been used expertly by foreign manipulators to spark crises and institute regime change throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Food insecurity was a critical factor in the so-called "Arab Spring" unrest which swept across the Middle East and North Africa in early 2010. That crisis, together with the US and NATO military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, helped spark the 2015 European migrant wave, which saw more than 1.3 million people making their way to the continent, sparking mass unrest and a host of other social ills and problems in the countries that were made to accept the newcomers.,Observers fear that the second time around, the situation could prove far more explosive.,“Europe is not prepared morally, technically, or politically to accept additional refugees. They already overstrained themselves with the Syrian crisis,” Elena Suponina, an advisor to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies and expert at the Russian International Affairs Council think tank, told Sputnik in an interview.,The West, Suponina believes, is not ready to “save” people from Africa and Asia in the event of a global food crisis which she says has been manufactured by the United States.,“The United States has always been interested in limiting the strength of the European economies. Besides being partners, they are also competitors. The US has always kept in mind that Europe is first and foremost a competitor,” the expert stressed.,Tiberio Graziani, chairman of Vision & Global Trends - an Italy-based international affairs think tank, echoed Suponina's concerns, suggesting that Europe is "by no means ready to handle new potential waves of migrants," and still reeling from the consequences of the 2015 crisis. At the same time, he said, hunger has been a "recurring theme" in a world dominated by the West and its political and economic systems of governance.,"The food crisis is mainly due to the predatory policies carried out - in recent decades - by the so-called Western system in the different corners of the world. The hyper-liberal-democratic policies of the West have favoured the large globalist interest groups which, similarly to the colonial past of the nineteenth century, have deconstructed the various economic-productive fabrics of many areas of the planet, producing misery and dependence. The sophisticated technology that could help the fate of millions of people, since in the hands of large producers, often tied to financial interests, has instead, paradoxically, exacerbated the problem. Non-state organizations such as the UN, beyond good speeches, have failed to find adequate solutions to the problem. The world as a whole could find solutions - to this challenge, as well as to others - only if world power were more evenly distributed. Only a new multipolar system that adopts - in both economic and political international issues - a solidarity and cooperative practice, antithetical to current hyperliberism, could save us. It can be noted that some initiatives taken by the BRICS countries are moving in this direction," Graziani stressed.,The academic also agreed with Suponina's analysis of Washington's interest in the current crisis.,"The interest of the United States is to maintain global hegemony. This can also involve the sacrifice of nations such as Ukraine or the Old Continent: in the context of the North American strategy, these would be 'side effects'. The internal situation of the EU would worsen further: Europe as a whole would become even weaker and more dependent on the US than it currently is," Graziani concluded.。    　　直播间七夕“秒抢金饰”套路深　　“七夕礼遇你”“与你有关皆是浪漫”“一件珠宝甜满整个七夕”……今年七夕期间，各黄金珠宝直播间热闹非凡。然而，《中国消费者报》记者调查发现，这些浪漫营销话术推销的多是镀金饰品而非真金产品。　　对材质信息讳莫如深　　8月19日，七夕当天，记者进入标称“周六福金饰品专卖店”的直播间。直播间页面醒目位置标注着“官方正品七夕钜惠”“涨价倒计时”“周六福官方正品标签全国4500+家门店为您保驾护航”，而“官方正品 支持验货 S925银珠宝 京东快递 七天无理由”的字样在页面右下角，字体微小。　　主播手持一条金色四叶草手链，宣称其为“周六福正品真货，先检后发带证书”“手链总质量不低于3克，尾部有LOGO钢印”“今天工艺费全免，四折优惠”“去门店买，光工艺费就要大几百元”。面对观众“不给力”“二折”的刷屏要求，主播表示：“这样算下来500元都不到，能买到周六福的正品吗？”紧接着话锋一转，引导观众在评论区打出“喜欢”进行登记，承诺收到货后发布买家秀即可申请新品体验官资格。随后主播宣布“破价来一轮”“名额不多，全靠拼手速”“只上1秒链接”。　　记者点开商品链接看到，商品标题为“ZHOULIUFU/周六福925银手链四叶草手链时尚百搭@D0723896”，标价399元。产品参数标注“银材质：925银”“是否有金属镀层：镀K金”。

二 | 但在记者全程观看的20分钟直播时段内，主播自始至终未提及“银”和“镀金”这两项涉及材质和工艺的关键信息，也未主动说明该手链实为镀K金925银。

三 | 　　商品链接仅上线1秒便火速下架，有观众反映“压根没上”或“没抢到”，主播回应：“但凡犹豫1秒就抢不到了，以付款为准。”随后又以“再弹3秒链接”为由反复上架同款商品。所谓限时秒杀，不过是反复上演的营销套路。记者注意到，小黄车橱窗中除置顶的这款手链外，其他1至10号链接商品全部标注“足金”。抢购期间，直播间弹窗不断弹出“15人正在购买5号周六福足金戒指”“11人正在购买1号足金爱心花环吊坠”，渲染热销氛围。　　非遗花丝工艺成噱头　　在“周六福黄金直播馆”直播间，主播主推一款金色星星项链(幸运星)，称其为“周六福七夕情人节限定款”，并着重渲染产品工艺：“第一层是德国CNC立体浮雕工艺，第二层是花丝绕丝工艺，属于花丝系列、非遗系列产品。”主播宣称，七夕福利面向新人无门槛，登记信息即可成为新品体验官。本次优惠力度源于“品牌方给的现金补贴”，项链链身免费，吊坠享受五折补贴，今天进一步破价只要四折，商品链接仅上1秒。上链接时，直播间弹幕弹出提示“136人抢购了1号ZHOU LIU FU周六福幸运星”。

四 | 　　直播间小黄车内该商品名称为“ZHOU LIU FU/周六福 鎏光幸运星七夕送礼——D0690444”。记者查看商品参数及详情页发现，饰品材质为925银，工艺标注为“CNC、亮面、手工批花”，并无“花丝”或“非遗”相关描述。在长达29分钟的直播过程中，主播始终未提及“银”镀K金”，仅有两次含糊地说出“S49的”，却不作任何解释。

五 | 　　上述两个直播间主推产品对应的网店均为“周六福美珠宝专卖店”，经营主体为深圳市烁美商贸有限公司。

六 | 企查查数据显示，该公司成立于2025年11月，未发现周六福珠宝股份有限公司或其关联方持有该公司股份。　　“百万补贴金”制造捡漏幻觉　　在标称含有“周六福”字样的直播间，主播宣称“全国6000多家珠宝门店给你保驾护航”。该场为七夕专场，主推五花手链和蝴蝶手链，主播宣称“两条手链通体都是纯的，任何珠宝商行随便验”“五花手链在门店要卖4800元，蝴蝶手链要卖3800元，今天七夕有100万元补贴金(品牌推广费)，新人报名成功即可打包入手两条手链”“工艺费800元全免，两件全套三折”。　　当有观众在评论区打出“两张”(意指200元)时，主播便顺势称有新门店即将开业，如果观众愿意帮忙转发引流烘托人气，就会上架团购链接，“只上3秒，秒拍秒付”。记者点开商品链接看到，两款商品名称分别为“周六福幸运四叶草碎碎冰小众首饰节日送礼S925银手链”和“周六福蝴蝶手链小众首饰高级感送女友礼物S925银手链”，售价分别为259元和199元，克重分别为2.5克和1.8克，商品参数显示均为“925银”，“是否有金属镀层”一栏均标注为“其他镀层”。

七 | 直播过程中，弹窗还持续推送“120人正在购买1号周六福足金小胖福盘缠手绳”“46人正在购买4号周六福吉祥小葫芦项链”。　　两款商品归属网店为“周六福ZHOU LIU FU雄涛专卖店”，经营主体为深圳雄涛品牌管理有限公司。

八 | 企查查数据显示，该公司与周六福珠宝股份有限公司同样无股权关联。　　镀金银饰耐久性有限　　8月19日，记者走访周六福福州三坊七巷旗舰店。该店店员表示，线下门店不销售镀K金或镀金色银饰，因为“镀金饰品容易掉色，担心有顾客投诉”。该店售卖的银饰全部按件计费，并非按克计价。普通银手链标价多为数百元，可享受七折优惠。记者现场对一款折后售价332元的手链进行称重，重量为3克。　　福州三坊七巷内一家银店负责人向记者解释，S925或925银是银饰的标志，指含银量达到92.5%的合金，剩余的7.5%为其他金属，这些金属在制造过程中被电镀在银的表层，形成镀层。镀层可为足金、K金或其他金属合金，而K金本身就是一种合金。镀层外观一般有金色、银色、玫瑰金色等。

九 | 受穿戴时间与日常磨损影响，镀层会发生褪色，露出银质基底，饰品的美观性和耐用性随之下降，保色时间长短由镀层材质与镀层厚度决定。因此，正规银店很少售卖这类镀金银饰。　　该负责人介绍，纯银原料成本相对较低，品牌银饰的售价主要由工艺费和品牌溢价构成。他特别强调，手工批花或车花工艺与花丝工艺不是一回事，前者是在饰品表面做刻纹、切削雕刻处理；后者是指将金、银、铜等金属抽成细丝，经搓制后形成带花纹的丝，并通过掐、填、攒、焊、编织、堆垒等技法制作工艺品。批量压铸的镀K金银饰品即便模仿了花丝工艺的视觉效果，也不属于非遗花丝工艺范畴。　　记者：张文章　　来源：中国消费者报。

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