The 1972 Moscow Summit between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev is best known for the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and efforts to regulate the competition between the two superpowers.  It also generated a groundbreaking grain sale agreement that led to the United States selling millions of tons of food to the USSR.  The importance of the sale has been underestimated by historians even though it helped spark a global food crisis, generated a world food conference, and stimulated “wall to wall” planting in the United States and other places with enormous environmental consequences.

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