Cindy McCain tells the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme the deal must be renewed by 18 May.
The head of the World Food Programme has warned that it will be difficult to feed the world if Russia pulls out of the Ukraine grain deal.
Ukraine is a major global exporter of sunflower, maize, wheat and barley, and more than half of the wheat grain procured by the WFP last year came from there."They must renew the deal. We can't possibly be able to feed the region let alone the world unless they do," Ms McCain said."As you know, Ukraine used to be pretty much the breadbasket of Europe, and now that's not happening. And we need to get the grain out because it's affecting other countries.
Ms McCain said the WFP had been sourcing grains from other sources to distribute to countries around the world but it had not been able to feed as many people due to rising costs.Cindy McCain told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that it was "50/50" whether the deal would be renewed "I know that there are some farms that are still operating. But you have to remember, a large majority of the land where the crops were grown before are now mined, with land mines," she said.
Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that progress had been made in the talks on the Black Sea grain deal and that the parties had agreed to continue four-way technical meetings.
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