 In essence, peace and nature are connected. If you damage one, you damage the other. If you protect one, you enhance the other. This year, we have seen several geopolitical and environmental crises unfolding. Food prices have been rising as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is a major breadbasket of the world. At the same time, the effects of climate change are increasing. And the world is still grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises call for urgent answers to several questions. Mr. Geopolitics prioritizes food security among its research themes, showing how these seemingly separate crises are interconnected. I think the Russian invasion is going to have a contradictory impact on the levels of international cooperation, on major questions such as climate change or food insecurity. Now we have a situation where the Ukraine crisis is affecting global food prices and is affecting crises indirectly elsewhere through, for example, food prices, but also through diverting donor attention. And I think there is a contribution to make from research within Mr. Geopolitics to understand how aid flows will be affected and how this compounding crisis will have implications for global food security. Both Russia and Ukraine are important producers of wheat worldwide. Together they amount to around 30% of the global export markets of wheat. Russia is also a top producer of fertilizers globally, with many countries in Europe and Asia relying on fertilizers from Russia for their food production. Of course it has a significant impact. This in turn will lead to increased prices in the countries importing from Ukraine and Russia without upholding sort of the price levels with subsidies. This can cause sort of internal shocks at affected countries as well. We're already seeing price increases due to the pandemic, fuel prices, also some weather events that have affected the markets. We can expect this to aggravate the situation even further. And this will especially be felt in low-income countries that have a high import dependency of food and vulnerable groups. We see right now that a lot of attention is on Ukraine, but the Ukraine crisis also has implications elsewhere. We see implications for countries like Somalia that have been grappling with a multi-year drought and where now donor attention is going to go into Ukraine and in other places. We face three basic challenges to security. We face the challenge and the threat of the use of force and the use of violence. And secondly, there's the problem of climate change and the broader environmental crisis, which has just been continuing to intensify over recent years. And thirdly, there's the threat of pandemics. And we have lived through that as a near universal experience for the last two years. One crisis replaces another. It's like they take their turns rotating before our eyes, but they're all three there all the time. And we need to address all three that that is why there is such an emphasis on an integrated approach to these problems. This leads me into the purpose of MESTRA, having a broad spectra focusing on human security, on food security, on climate security, combining new ways of thinking, methods of analysis, perhaps we can understand prevention in a new dimension.