The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that due to the Strait of Hormuz closure, a severe global food price crisis is looming within six to 12 months unless governments act quickly.
The warning was made in a podcast hosted by the organization that focused on the current chokehold on global energy and how fertilizer supplies are expanding through agrifood systems worldwide.
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FAO chief economist Maximo Torero also said in the podcast that governments need to “start seriously thinking about how to increase the absorption capacity of countries, how to increase their resilience to this choke, so that we start to minimize the potential impacts.”
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The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international food commodity prices, rose for a third consecutive month in April, driven by high energy costs and disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict.
The agency said the shock will unfold in stages; first with energy, then fertilizer, seeds, lower yields, commodity prices and finally food inflation reaching shoppers.
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What they are saying is up until now, terrorists in the middle east have had control of all the food and all the oil in the world, and it all relies on the strait.
Maybe we should let Iran fund terrorists and have nukes so we can go back to having an abundance of food and oil.
This article is propaganda from Iran.
Good thing the extra CO2 we’re putting into the air adds to plant growth (crop yield) and lets them get by with less water. Not that you’d hear this in the mainstream media.
If it wasn’t for all the games/ agriculture profiteering maybe we could have even seen lower food prices as a result.
Time to de-fund UN. That would save us lots of money and solve lots of problems. Totally useless organization right now!!!
Using beef as an example, the Federal Government has put in rules and regulations that benefit large corporate farms, pushing out the small and medium farmers. Then other rules and regulations have driven out small meat processing plants so only three large plants can operate in Canada. So the corporations that run the beef industry can limit supply, drive up prices for record profits. The Liberal Government likes this setup because those corporations donate heavily to the Liberal Party.
No No No
People from the GTA and lower mainland keep telling me i dont need fertilizer, persticides or “monoculture farming”
They keep telling me my way of farming is killing the bees (that i raise) and using too much water and i need to pay double for fuel to punish me for ruining the planet.
Now you are worried about skyrocketing food prices .
Called this during covid.
It is worse than even an worrysome alarmist like me thought. You thought it was bad now? You aint seen nothing yet.
We are going to see huge problems spin off from the price gouging in the global food market.
Riots, complete social collapse, and the coming police state in Canada and elsewhere. All by design.
We saw people fist fighting for toilet paper. You aint seen desperate until youve seen a man with starving kids.
Hope yall can plant a good garden.