People need to understand what is happening, and they should be given the opportunity to prepare. The pace at which food shortage is coming and things are changing around the world right now are absolutely breathtaking, but most people just assume that life just goes on as it normally does. Unfortunately, the truth is that a very real global emergency is developing right before our very eyes. Following are 20 facts about the emerging global food shortage that should chill you to your very core… writes Michael Snyder.
#1 One of France’s top government officials tells us to brace ourselves for a “very serious” global food crisis…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the EU should prepare for the prospect that the war in Ukraine could trigger a “very serious” global food crisis.
#2 Joe Biden recently admitted that food shortages “will be real”, and his administration is now openly using the word “famine” to describe what is to come…
The Biden administration is concerned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause famine in parts of the world, Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, told CNBC on Friday.
#3 Reportedly, food prices in German supermarkets will soon rise between 20 and 50 percent …
Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generations (with an annualized CPI of 7.6% that blew away all expectations), which left locals in a distinctly uneasy feeling of deja vu, even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the few remaining. supply chains and pushed prices even higher into the stratosphere…
On Monday, Germany will take a step towards a return to feared Weimar hyperinflation, as the German Retailers’ Association (HDE) says consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday items and grocery items, with Reuters reporting that the prices at German retail chains between 20 and 50% will explode.
#4 In Spain, rationing has already started…
In Spain, sporadic shortages of various products such as eggs, milk, and other dairy products started almost immediately after the war broke out in Ukraine. At the beginning of March, large supermarkets such as Mercadona and Makro started rationing sunflower oil.
#5 The rationing has already started in Greece …
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing foodstuffs such as flour and sunflower oil due to critically low stocks caused by crippled supply chains coming from Russia and Ukraine.
#6 The head of BlackRock warns that this will be the very first time this generation “walks into a store and can’t get what they want” …
On Tuesday, BlackRock Inc. President Rob Kapito told an audience in Austin, Texas, organized by the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, that a whole younger generation is quickly learning what it means to suffer from shortages, Bloomberg reported.
“For the first time, this generation will go into a store and not be able to get what they want,” Kapito said. “And we have a very privileged generation that has never had to make sacrifices.”
#7 Since this time last year, some fertilizer prices have risen by as much as 300 percent.
#8 Many farmers in Africa will not be able to afford fertilizer at all this year, and it is predicted that agricultural production will fall by an amount that could feed “100 million people” …
With prices having tripled in the last 18 months, many farmers are considering forgoing fertilizer purchases this year. That means a market long touted for its growth potential will shrink by nearly a third, according to Sebastian Nduva, program manager at the research group AfricaFertilizer.Org.
That could cut grain production by 30 million tons, enough to feed 100 million people, he said.
#9 Russia is normally one of the largest exporters of fertilizers in the world …
Russia is a major global player in natural gas, an important raw material for fertilizer production. Higher gas prices, and reduced supply, will push fertilizer prices up further. Russia is one of the largest exporters of the three major groups of fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). Physical reductions in supply could push fertilizer prices up further.
#10 In a typical year, Russia and Ukraine together account for about 30 percent of all wheat exports in the world.
#11 Half of Africa’s wheat imports usually come from Russia or Ukraine.
#12 Other countries depend even more than Africa on wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine …
Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Eritrea have imported almost all of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine and need to find new sources. But they have to compete with much larger buyers, including Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Iran, who have sourced more than 60 percent of their wheat from the two belligerent countries.
#13 A Russian official warns that his nation will soon be exporting food only to “friendly nations” …
A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.
Dmitry Medvedev, a high-ranking Russian security official who formerly served as the nation’s president, has threatened that Russia will soon cut the West from food exports.
#14 Friday it was announced that an additional 5 million egg-laying chickens in Iowa would have to be euthanized because of bird flu.
#15 The bird flu death toll in Iowa alone will rise above 13 million with this latest incident.
#16 Overall, the total national death toll from bird flu currently looks like this: “22 million laying hens, 1.8 million broiler chickens, 1.9 million hens and other commercial chickens, and 1.9 million turkeys”.
#17 China’s agriculture minister has announced that China’s winter wheat harvest could be “the worst in history” .
#18 We are warned that the winter wheat crop in the United States will be “disastrous” due to severe drought.
#19 In a recent interview, a leading American farmer stated that most Americans would not like it when “your grocery bill goes up $1,000 a month . “
#20 The head of the UN’s World Food Program says what awaits the planet now is unlike anything we‘ve seen since World War II …
“Ukraine has only exacerbated catastrophe on top of catastrophe,” said David M. Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Programme, the United Nations organization that feeds 125 million people a day. “There is no precedent that comes even close to this since World War II.”
We have been warned again and again that this day would come, and now the time has come.
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