My country India which is the second largest producer of wheat . In crop season 2022 their is 25% decrease in wheat production due to very High Temperature Wind in March and April. Climate change is a very serious issue ,all world have to think about it collectively 👍
Thank you. This needs to be told. I have mentioned this many times. Southern California's drought means their food production is down 60%, Texas rice production down 40%, I could go on. It is a food disaster that will destroy societies and economies in many countries.
Hopefully Indian people will turn against Adani who is a major driver of the coal caused climate crisis. Stop allowing your corrupt government to turn different religions who used to live peacefully side by side against each other and focus on the real climate culprits.
Across the world in California, we grow most of America’s veggies, fruits and nuts. 49 of my neighbors just lost their homes to fire caused by high heat and by exceptional drought. The Colorado River, which provides water to one in eight Americans, is going dry. At the same time, we have kept growing crops using groundwater, which is drying up.
@@akhonalunga1035 ...if it is the unfolding, then this has to be the most bizarre, disastrous creation any Creator could have created. Personally, I think the Creator is mentally unstable and has powerful creatures that continually declare his magnificence around his throne forever and ever. Don't know about you, but this guy definitely has a serious ego problem.
Sri Lanka cannot feed its people. How could this happen in a country with fertile land? Incompetent politicians. It is the same in Africa. Food production has to be the priority
It's not really about ability but economics and politics. Basically, the world is forced to trade in dollars, developing countries are forced to buy grain from Europe, failing to agree to this insanity results in sanctions from the so called "developed world". It's a means of control.
@@lightzpy8049 Every drop of gasoline consumed worldwide was bought in dollars. Its called the "petro-dollar". Try to buy crude with anything else you'll feel the spiky arm of international sanctions.
We got to learn to take care of ourselves. Relying on the machinery of globalism is riskier than it seems. All over the world, we need to return to our roots and garden, preserve food, raise animals, cook, etc. This was largely the case in "poorer countries" until the people lost their land by the hand of corrupt governments and corporations.
@@eugeneshemchuk5731 Here is the thing: animals can eat a lot of agricultural byproducts that we can't eat. 90% of what cows eat in the US is grass/hay/plant stalks, e.g. things we can't eat. In turn they produce rich fertilizer and nutrient dense food. There aren't plant based sources of protein that are as complete as animal based proteins. Plus raising animals in humane conditions gives the animals a good life and good living conditions. The food they provide is much healthier than those factory farmed by the globalists.
Even Belarus is aware of this and totally independent, makes the best leather shoes and even have their own refrigerator. Rely on no one, preppers motto!
Please do not use the war in Ukraine as substantive cause for hunger in Africa. We have been more affected by internal conflicts in Africa and changing climate long before the Ukraine crisis. Most Africans South of the Sahara do not depend on wheat as main food. Cassava, sweet potatoes, green bananas, yams, pumkins etc.
Ukraine accounts for about 10% of the world’s wheat and supplies large quantities of grain to North African states, which other sources could not replace even in the long run, according to current model calculations by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, based in Kiel, Germany.
Thank you for addressing the "greed inflation". Now, can we please talk about the fact that only a handful of companies control most of the sales of food, and how we can break up those monopolies and get some honest competition on price?
have you ever considered that this is the only way to feed the 10+ million people cities all over the world? you cant feed cities without industrial farming and you need these big companies to have industrial farming. the only way food is even this cheap is because of those companies, look up how much food cost during the last century compared to income. food has never been cheaper. the problem in a lot of those countries is that people went from rural to urban areas, they went form at least being able to feed themselves to only consuming food. thats why 90% of their food is sometimes imported. maybe we should stop trying to cram ever more people into cities or we could constantly blame the system that allowed so many people to exist in the first place.
@@weedling3552 If you want to convince me that the ONLY way to feed large cities is to have big monopolies and no competition, then you literally have to disprove EVERY alternative solution. That will require quite a bit of evidence. There are laws against monopolies for good reasons. They just need to be enforced.
@@Baekstrom what alternatives are there? thats the point, no one has a better system, that can feed more people. its tragic, it sucks, but thats how it is. you need chemical fertilizers, you need monoculture, simply to feed all those people that dont produce their own food. subsistence farming cant feed cities. organic farming cant feed cities. some 80% of the population need to be farmers in a subsistence agriculture. organic farming is basically a priviledge of the rich already. a true monopoly would be just one company, so it not even a real monopoly, but thats besides the point. the point is that you need huge companies, because you need a lot of land, a lot of machines and a lot of starting capital. today a few farmers can do the work of thousands, but only with the right equipment. thats why food prices are so low in the first place, if you are going to break up those companies, all the poor people starve, because only a big company can provide the scale of production necessary to make food that cheap. (also keep in mind a lot of these poor countries are in regions that arent as fertile as most countries in the north) just look up the population sizes of those countries before the industrial revolution, to get a picture of who many people those lands can actually support, with organic farming/subsistence farming. i dont like this situation, i prefer to buy local and organic, but its a sad reality. look what banning chemical fertilizers did to sri lankas yields!
@@weedling3552 Community gas suppliers also need industrial capacity, but often belong to the state or operate under fixed regulations. At a minimum, staple foods could be managed by an international agency, based on firmly negotiated principles. The necessary technology would have to be made freely available by the "leading" nations in an international process. As a gigantic investment in the future of mankind. Well, the alternative is Mad Max. Let everyone choose.
@@fabp.2114 "Community gas suppliers also need industrial capacity, but often belong to the state or operate under fixed regulations." true and some nations have huge strategic grain/food reserves. so nations already kind of do that, but i really cant see humanity as a whole agreeing on doing this. (even if it could help) the "international" part is really the problem. besides the leading nations having very little immediate incentive to do so, (they wont starve, the poor ones will) i think the biggest problem would be to distribute tech in general, machines and knowhow specifically. there are also a dozen other problems that would have to be solved, like the value of money/time. or what if farmers dont want to plant needed crops because they have better alternatives? also what if countries still fail to keep up with the negotiated prices and become dependent on constant aid? its one thing to give the machines and tell them how to operate them, its an other to teach people how to maintain and maybe even improve on the tech they are given. also i think it would be hard to for example, just transfer existing machines, (if you can even convince people to give them up) im half philippino, half swiss and i know that all the tech (laptops, watches, phones) made for switzerland will likely corrode and break after about 3 years in the philippines due to the high humidity and salty sea air. (the chinese stuff breaks even faster, but thats normal) theres only a single japanese company, that i know of, that has recently begun making things with a new steel alloy/mixture? that wont corrode at all in the sea air. so things as simple as that would make it very hard to actually distribute what we have now, i think a lot would have to be purpose built, so it can last. i think its likely humanity will find ways to produce even cheaper food, specially meat/protein. the poor countries will likely be the main consumers. the poor will continue to flee the country sides and the cities will grow and the few remaining self reliant people will become dependent on food handouts of the worst imaginable quality. the poor always loose and the rich always win :( i dont really see any solution to this at the moment, we had this coming since we started with industrial agriculture, it allowed our population to explode, but the system is fragile due to its own efficiency (only a few countries need to export to feed billions) maybe we can change this over time, but i dont think much can be done effectively immediately, the situation will hopefully stabilize soon. but like breaking up the companies, would 100% lead to an instant world wide famine.
If you look at the Deniers, Climate-Change becomes more obvious and more proven than even if you just look at the Thing itself. I mean, Science is nice and totally settled in this case but what really is most-telling for me personally is a Look at those that deny the Science. Hbomberguy covered Denial with a whole video, so that's extremly telling.
Here in the US, we waste a huge amount of resources by encouraging animal agriculture with subsidies and promotion by the government. Animal agriculture is inherently less efficient than a plant based food system. We now feed more calories and protein to farm animals than we get from eating them or what comes out of them.
"By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests." -LA Times Mar 26, 2018" "But it doesn’t have to be this way. New research suggests the country could feed all 327 million Americans - plus roughly 390 million more - by focusing on plants. If U.S. farmers took all the land currently devoted to raising cattle, pigs and chickens and used it to grow plants instead, they could sustain more than twice as many people as they do now, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."-LA Times Mar 26, 2018" Title and author follow- "By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests BY KAREN KAPLANSCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR MARCH 26, 2018 2:56 PM PT Link to the study within the article.
@@onetime4502 Everyone who can compost should do so. It greatly reduces the methane that would otherwise be produced in landfills. Methane is 80 times more potent than CO2 (as a green house gas) during the first 20 years. Food waste is to be avoided, but composting reduces the problems caused by it.
the world is struggling to feed itself and government response pretty much everywhere at this point is to attack or make it more difficult for the farmers who are trying to grow that food.
The world wastes 3 BILLION tonnes a year of crops like soy, grain and corn.. feeding it to cows.. also the livestock industry make up 80% of the air able land yet only produces 20% of the worlds calories.. didn’t mention that??
I noticed none of the solutions included people learning to produce food for themselves. Grain isn’t even that good for you. We must start forest gardens, produce our own protein and veggies. We also have to capture rainwater and so much more.
The big elephant in the room is also “overpopulation” and the inability to maintain this many people in those areas. There are simply too many people to feed atm…
In my country women have an average of 1.19 children each.... and Spain is a net exporter of food. Africans want to have seven children each, starvation is inevitable...
Africa has been helped for over 50 years. They simply multiplied over 7 fold and became even more hungry. Now The Malthusian trap is coming down hard. What a f disaster.
Yes, they want to make as few changes as possible. That way they can extract more wealth for a little longer, and be retired or dead by the time it faces an even worse collapse.
Wrong the system never truly worked. The system committed offense against nature and the poor and against truth and Righteousness. Now the chickens are coming home to roost as they say. The system instigated wars for profits, and helped the greedy to hoard as is evident today
The countries with the greatest food shortages resist family planning the most. And the countries that export the most food, like Ukraine, have the fewest children. So the problem will get a whole lot worst.
As a whole, countries and cultures that prioritize family planning and educating women do better economically because 1) the women are able to work in better paying roles, and 2) families have children they can better provide for. Also, making protection like condoms more available helps prevent deadly diseases like AIDS.
@@AashayChaukekar "Population control" is a slippery slope to murder and eugenics. Giving people the ability to choose whether or not to have children and how many is more freeing and empowers people to be able to make good decisions
Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. Having populations larger than the country can provide food, shelter, water and housing for is unsustainable.
Comparative advantage and international trade make the world richer and safer. International organizations need to continue to work at keeping the world stable and prosperous for everyone.
Education, especially of the girls is the key. If they learn then they will be employable, if then they have money then they have choices, if they choose then they will choose to have less children and a better life for themselves and child.
@@linmal2242 Male mentalities there have to change. That is the main problem. In many countries, educated girls are despised. Men want uneducated girls and often many children. Because uneducated girls have to look up to them, which is great for their ego. This is not my idea. You can read it in many sources, like in articles on the Guardian, on NGO websites like Girls not brides etc.
@@alexomar9168 Richer and safer for who? The West is in crisis partially due to outsourcing jobs and not doing enough to address repercussions. Even Adam Smith knew it would be a problem to outsource jobs, but the neoliberal globalists ignored it. Global food trade also undermined poor countries autonomy when it came to food stability. Supply chain problems, like Ukraine, now causes people to starve.
So we produce enough food to feed every person on the planet, but imperatives like greed and conflict dictate that people have to starve as a strategy to achieve various political and economic goals. Not to mention waste and the role that plays. Developed nations throw away over a quarter of the food they produce. Maybe we don't know how to do anything properly besides being awful to each other.
That the developed countries throw away 25% of the food is BS those statistics count straw , oil press cakes, peel, bones and pulpe as discarted food evenso most of it could only ne digested by animals. And it developing nations the percentage of „discarte“ food is equality high.
Have you heard of such things as transportation costs? This is one of the reasons why food is just thrown away as it is pricier to transport it than to just throw it. Secondary lets assume we transport all the food needed everywhere, what effect will it have on the local market, how can a farmer compete with free food given away. The result will be even more unemployed farmers in mostly agrarian countries where they make up the majority of the population. Free aid is one of the reasons africa is not developing, instead of giving free food we need to invest in the local produce and infrastructure so those countries can at least sustain themselves.
The same story throughout history over and over again the problem is people don’t change. You come up with a system and people start running it and pretty soon it is gamed for the few
No, it's not the story as before. The fact is that too many countries have let their population explode until the point that they can't feed their own people,
Well, if you take a look at medieval period, when such situations occurred (famine triggers greed in merchants who start to stockpile food and selling it only to rich citizens), poor people didn't just sit and die, they burned more affluent parts of the city that was stockpiling food so there was more food for everyone. It was enough predictable that states started to develop policies around it, like how to prepare stockpiles of food, social programs to distribute it and how to prevent merchants to overprice it when it is needed the most.
There only needs to be a mention of a coming food shortage and the retailers start price gauging. They are making a killing right now. They are not paying the Farmers any more for the food they grow despite inputs going through the roof. Farmers can't make a living from that so they stop planting. Food crises gets even worse. I'm a farmer. At least I can grow enough to feed myself but I might have to get another day job if I don't start getting paid higher prices. So we can add greedy grocers to the list of why there will be a food shortage.
The main problem is not any of them. The main problem is higher fertality rate in poor countries while less fertality rate in rich countires. If you can feed only 1 children in Africa, so it is obivous 6 fertality rate is a big mistake for them. Rich countries does not have to feed poor just because they dont choose to birth children while poors choose army of children.
Greed inflation. Sir You're 100% right. Increase in prices are often associated with greed for profit. We need to break up these monopoly from these big companies.
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse? You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down? Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
Which good work. It's all about Africa ! They did the same with COVID yet we accounted for only 2% global deaths. They wish we will all die in Africa. Cursed be dw staff members and their children they die before we do
All the solution suggested will never work due to the internal resistance of the system. The best solution is to teach the people to roll up their sleeves and start growing their own food. You can grow food anywhere and you don't need to DEPEND on others for survival
People in urban areas, that is most people in the world, can't grow their food. Without owning land people can't feed themselves. The problem is much more complex than you suggest.
Current food crises highlight the injustice of using grains as animal feed. Globally, the livestock sector uses: 🌾20% of wheat 🌽61% of corn 🌱80% of soy 🗺83% of farmland But it only provides: 🚫18% of global calories We need a shift towards plant-based diets to build more resilient and sustainable food systems.
I can keep a family of five sufficient in onions for twelve months using 2m² of land and about 7 hours of labour. Instead of doing that 99% of people in the west put astroturf in their gardens, go to the shops and buy onions with money. Onions have a global price, it's cheaper to import onions from New Zealand (!) than to store them in warehouses, so we ship them around the globe, it's a bizarre set of events. Put some compost over your lawns and grow stuff.
Totally agree with you! One can make the front yard look amazingly appealing by planting a cottage garden instead of a lawn. Combining food and beauty as well as creating biodiversity ... People always compliment my garden and say how much they would like to have something like that but are simply not willing to put in the effort themselves! I don't understand this kind of apathy ... 🤔🙈
@@WitchOnABroomstick Thanks for that, Britain has produced some top notch gardeners, but there is one man. probably the nicest human being on the planet, who shows people that gardening is really simple and easy, Mr. Charles Dowding and he's here on UA-cam,
Y'all kinda forgot Asia. The main aim of policy advisors have been to urge developing nations to invest for export and chase that rather than build a solid economic base at home. As a result, endogenous food supply are ignored, farming communities are lured away from it into cities to earn cash. The have been lured to allow their endogenous food production knowledge to die.
If these commodities are so important in the food system than countries should be producing them domestically. The biggest reason for food insecurity in some areas is the ridiculous overpopulation of those regions to the point that they can't support their own population. The best humanitarian aid that could be sent to these places is birth control. Low supply and high demand in the global trade market is causing prices to soar well above the real value, even in countries that are self-sufficient, because the global prices are artificially inflating the value even for domestically produced and sustainable resources.
Inflation is the word then recession or depression , not necessarily in that order. Some of these countries have been overpopulated but at the same time they have taken measures to control their population not withstanding all upheavals, and been able to sustain the very population with a green revolution. The population in question also has become self reliant, independent over the years and not at the cost of richer countries....not amused
I agree, Places like Los Angeles and New York should be altered to be self sustaining. What is happening is that they import their foods from thousands of miles away. That leaves the locals of those areas scrambling for land to support themselves on. True also for Europe.
Poor nations have to sell their grains to rich nations to feed livestock, not to mention the insane amount of water used for both and the burning of fossil fuels to transport all of this. It’s a sick cycle
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse? You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down? Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
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I feel for their struggle, things are not ideal at all. Maybe buying grain from far away is not the best system though, hope they can invest in sustainable local agriculture. How to make food cheaper, sustainable, and more available? Grow it yourself in your backyard, that's what I do lol.
Producers are not going to ship too far as the end user cost would be too high and the producer is not going to want sell for less as they do not want to make a loss.
I think the problem is with the continued drive to make $ Profits. That's what's causing the disruption. I believe only so much $$ can be made.And All industry's are trying to make the greatest profits. With less & less quality. So the circle of production & consumption should actually be more equal in value. Buts it isn't. It's all based on profits. What's going to happen when folks cant afford it?????
When the concept of planetary overpopulation first arose it was predicted that if we did not act to reduce the population nature would do it for us. This is what that looks like. What is not mentioned in this report is the effect of food shortages on violence. Throughout history acquisition of natural resources has been the major cause of wars worldwide. There is no natural resource more important than food. It does not take an Einstein to see what food shortages will lead to. Between starvation and the resulting wars our population will go down. That is nature at work. That is what it looks like. This is the outcome that was predicted many decades ago. What is touched upon here but not fully explained is the market for food. Aka capitalism. A core facet of capitalism is unlimited growth. The capitalist system measures everything in terms of growth. If a market grows it is good. If a market does not grow that is bad and must be made to grow. Now consider that we live on a planet with finite resources and you will see how ridiculous this concept is. But it is this ridiculous concept that controls pretty well everything on our planet. The capitalist system is deeply entrenched in pretty well everything on our planet. It has been shown time and time again that there is nothing that the people who profit from the capitalist system will not do to protect it. Climate Change and the sixth mass extinction are perfect examples of the depths of their depravity. So, the end result is a very bleak future while those in power fight over the dwindling resources available on our planet. That is unfortunate when you consider the potential of the human race. Here we are on the brink of so many wonderful things, and yet we are destroying ourselves.
Thanks. That was a good comment. I see overpopulation and overconsumption as the two main problems. And both help the interest of the market, of Capitalism. Nature suffers, but hardly anyone care. Great that you mentioned the sixth mass extinction of species. Hardly anyone ever does.
@@alixmordant489 you mention capitalism and still think overconsumption and overpopulation as the main problem? overconsumption is a symptom of capitalism (which is the actual disease) and we are clearly not overpopulated if there's enough food to feed EVERYONE twice over. Capitalism is what puts profits over the wellbeing of the earth and all it's inhabitants.
@@gtenhave We are overpopulated. Also, that food you mentioned is created by destroying ecosystems, with lots of CO2 output and many "chemicals" needed. That system may very soon fail. We already have loss of soil, water shortages etc. (And please, do not come up with technocratic pseudo solutions that just create more problems. Weird, that even people who cannot stand "Capitalism" always use its tools when justifying their own pet-peeve points.) And there is more than food needed for a decent human life. Water, building materials like cement (which contains sand, of which we already have a critical shortage), wood etc. Energy for heating or cooling. Clothing. We already use all ecosystems to the max. In the West, due to overconsumption, we use up the resources of multiple earths. Fact: Just because many people are poor now and therefore near zero net emitters of CO2 does not mean they do not have a negative impact on ecosystems already. And they (understandably) do not want to stay poor! They too crave for (over)consumption. We are all humans, sharing the same flaws. "Clean energy" is not a silver bullet, no cure-all. All ecosystems are at the brink, even if the media seems to only talk (sadly too little) about Climate Change.
What about something pretty important, WATER!? Yeah, it's a great idea to produce food practically on your doorstep, but you need WATER for that. Not salt sea water, fresh sweet water, which is becoming rare in many places. That's at the least as important as cleaning up the transport market.
It's the logical consequence of an aspired (high) standard of living and uncontrolled reproduction. World population rose from 1 billion in 1804 to 2 billion in 1927 and to 8 billion in 2023. In combination with human made climate change this is no wonder to me. What we will see as a consequence: More conflicts, diseases etc. Mankind is doomed if it continues the way it does and I doubt mankind can change.... this was known for many years but nothing happened so far. Looks like humans need to be put on the list of extinction endangered species.
Back in 1970s we tried to promote Zero Population Growth. That wasn't received well by wall street and thier concept of "sustainable growth: Over population IS the driver for all the crisis we face. Have. Thanks for your comment. ! As I say often..Too many ticks on the moose....
@@zinjanthropus322 true. But in not in numbers of 10s of millions. But they weren't dependent upon big business to feed them . And it was often caused by greed leading to war. It's also what pushed mankind to migrate to most of the planet. Population Explosion was created by thr burning of Fossil fuels too. Also a big money program.
@@zinjanthropus322 Sure. And the invention of modern agriculture techniques, fertilizers, a global food system etc. etc. made things considerably better. I would even say, we were on save ground. But constantly rising populations ate up our success stories. Just as our greed for endless consumption eats up our successes in energy saving or new clean energy technologies. Overpopulation and overconsumption are our downfall. And what is wrong about contraceptives and small families anyway.
Humanitarian organization Oxfam has predicted the world will run out of food around 2050 when a growing world population exceeds food growing capacity.
If the United States and Europe and Britain. Where not so busy keeping Africa down an under developed. There would not be a food crisis. Africa could produce enough food products to feed the world. Africa is the worlds Agriculture Center. But the rich countries are more concern with mining for Diamonds and Gold, and other mineral, oil and other precious metals that will make them rich. But you can't eat iron, or gold, you can't drink oil. It is this greed and these large corporations that have brought us to this day.
I doubt that these big corporations would let decentralized production happen. They would at least hamper the process of implementation becuase it is clraerly not in their interest.
The countries most vulnerable are also those with the highest fertility and population growth over the last few generations. Moreover the global industrial food system produces food energy which embodies far more energy from fossil fuel than from sunlight
@@jerrygaber6150 it was foreseen in 1865 - see the Wikipedia page for ‘The Coal Question’ from that year. The author’ name Jevons is still a household word in economics
That stolen grain from Ukraine is going to go sour.. it will only be good for beer or making penicillin and LSD if it doesn't get to the countries that usually buy it.
But we are not starving anyone in my country. My country is a net exporter of food. Women in Spain have an average of 1.19 children each. Why don't Africans just grow their own food and limit the size of their families. How long can rich countries be accused of starving people that refuse to correct their situation?
@@jaycristoval6155 there was an african country that fed all of africa.. then we forced them to let mugabe take power and rhodesia collapsed into communism and hyperinflation... then we forced south africa to give the country to the ANC..
@@jaycristoval6155 no amount of explanation is going to get you to be able to consider other people as human beings. just say how you actually feel. stop pretending
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse? You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down? Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
Good video. One thing not discussed here is over-population. The world has nearly 8 billion people now, many in developing and poor countries where resources are scarce and/or non-existent. This also needs to be taken into the whole picture. Mother Earth cannot sustain this many people for much longer.
By 2050, with the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion, our food supplies will be under far greater stress. Demand will be 60% higher than it is today, but climate change, urbanization, and soil degradation will have shrunk the availability of arable land, according to the World Economic Forum. Source: TIME
Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Good going, what now?
The global population has ALREADY peaked and is entering a decline. This is because the West controlled their pop growth WAY too well; the West needs to return to having kids so that there are enough educated and skilled laborers to support the world. The developing world will not be even close to ready to support themselves for another fifty years.
It’s WAR not a conflict ! Please, consider this before writing in description “conflict”! And yes, hunger is because of russia, not because of Ukraine.
Spinoza claims that the mind and body are one and the same. But he also claims that the mind thinks and does not move, whereas the body moves and does not think.
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Lets Highlight something not covered in this segment. Global trade has hurt poorer countries more than anything. Specifically African and Asian because they are forced to use outside commodities more than their own. Suppression of domestic goods and the refusal to raise tariffs on imported goods by (corrupt governments) means that the domestic supply is more expensive compared to the imported. If Farmers in Africa and Asia are being out done by foreign supply then they will no longer do farm work because the costs of running the farm outweigh the income earned, so they leave farming. In times of Crisis we always see a reduced level of supply out of fear that their will not be enough for citizens of the countries supplying the goods to the supply chain. Tariffs are essential to countries that do not have a manufacturing industries and his GPA . It allows them to keep their supplies and economies stable
I still think the root cause is not the inefficiency of the system, but that we're constantly pushing it to the limits. In a free economy there is always a surplus while there is always a deficit. This is because of the dynamic nature of the system, which can react naturally to the changes in the environment. An exchange (of stocks or goods) is a great example of this - these are the places where demand and supply can find each other very fast, and work out a reasonable price. This was so 100 years ago, even 1000 years ago (in a local scale). What has changed is the population of Earth which increases demand constantly, and depletes resources constantly. If you look at it like this, you will realize how ingenious this system is. When there is more demand, it incentivizes suppliers to innovate with higher prices. This is how irrigation was invented, rice and wheat has become the main celery products, pesticides and herbicides have spread, mono-cultures have become dominant, GMO was developed, mass farms of antibiotic-fed livestock has become the norm, and so on. At the same time the same practices have transformed Earth - reduced biodiversity, changed the climate, and so on. This is not EVIL. This is a necessity to answer the challenge of population growth. (FYI - in 1910 the population of Earth was 2 billions. Today over 8 billions, and still growing exponentially.) Let's say you change the system to one which can distribute the food for 12 billions evenly. Luckily for you, it was invented around 200 years ago - it is called Communism. In this world everyone of the 12 billion will get their nutrition needs covered - everyone will get just enough cereals, diary, oil, and maybe a bit of fruit to cover their bodily needs. Most won't be happy with that, and will get around, or overthrow the system, but let's ignore that for a moment. But. As soon as the population steps over the 12 billion, or there is any disturbance in the system (drought, transportation problem, etc.), then suddenly a large portion of the 12 billion will die, almost immediately, as there is no buffer (surplus) in the system. The starving population will cause a ripple effect, their work will be missing from production and transportation of the food, which causes further shortages and more people starving. It is not just a distant possibility, but it will certainly happen once the system reaches the limits of its capacity. Furthermore there is no incentive to grow capacity any more, so the growing population will collapse every time it reaches the same limit. I am really sorry to say, but there is no perfect solution to this equation. A continuously growing population will always result in people starving. What I see as a possible solution is reducing the population to a sustainable level. We're well over this level today, so just capping it won't help. This would lead to different problems, but I would say those would be better problems to have.
Long scree. Little content. The world population growth has been linear since the 70s. Communism is no more able to handle a non-growing world than capitalism (witness China today), and both are going down in flames as we sit here typing. Also, communism cannot be efficient. Capitalism cannot be fair. What is needed is a pure democracy using the computers to implement the desires of people -- that is, we need an end to work.
No. Animal ag contributes 87% of global warming if you factor in rainforest destruction.. which has only been done recently .. study is published and peer reviewed
@Sarfaraz Ardesher Africans burning plastic off copper wire wouldn't have anything to do with it, just the western industrial revolution that brought you electricity.
There are solutions to the global food crisis, but the barriers to change enshrined in the mechanisms of capitalism will ensure that nothing is done until millions of people have already died.
Unfortunately as long as we have a society that values capital higher than humanity we won't do any of the suggestions in this video to save lives. We currently pride ourselves on valuing capital not humanity it is right there in the term caplistist society.
yes, the industrialized countries don't have babies coming out of their ears... so cut the cheap BS - you just want the intelligent few to give you a free meal ticket.. well, we have had enough of your BS.. work for your own meal ticket and stop having lots and lots of babies
How I see this is that too many people live where there is nothing to eat. I don't know how is that problem of Europe, corporations or global food market.
Atleast be sympathetic. Next time in those situations will be you people. Russia is going to cut off Nord stream pipeline 2. Haven't you had enough Gas Problems. This also can lead to higher inflation and eventually to hunger.
Quite the opposite in my opinion. In communism there is central planning. This video is advocating for a more distributed food production system with localized control.
Those corporations are responsible for cheap and reliable food supply. They are dominating trade because they are more efficient, which leads to lower prices.
Yes, but that is the perpetual hazard of monopoly in a capitalist market. Once one or a collaborating few gain dominance of a competative market, even if by providing best value, the competative magic vanishes. Remember, profit is the only real goal of a corporation. And as an end consumer of food, profit is a pure loss to you. So just switch brands, right? Your "consumer choice" might not be a real one, when the ultimate production comes back to one or a few companies, brand is just a rigged label glue shell game.
You need fossil fuels to grow and distribute the food. We are running out of fossil fuels (and shouldn't use them anyway, because their use causes climate change). Solution: stop population growth immediately!
Wow stop men from having sex... problem solved. And renewable energy... we are past that. I mean on ur homestead sure. Not on any industrial or commercial farming. That's not going to happen. That ship has sailed. But wait there's more.... America has banned Abortion. Therefore we will have 36 million women affected by more pregnancy. Just another day thar ends in Y.
Interesting.. how does the planet sustain with negative population growth? 🤔 And once you achieve said sustainability, who actually benefits, assuming there are no humans after a century?
That woman who stood looking at the meat section of the supermarket and turned away without taking any says it all. That's what I do too. I hardly ever eat meat anymore, I can't afford it.
Reducing dependence of meat and fish subsistence (whole plant bases diet) will go a long way to optimize the calories that are available. It will also go a long way to reducing climate change.
We need to stop the thinking of God gives us life and God will give us food if our countries doesn't have the ability to provide for them. We need to decrease our birth rate and invest more on agriculture to reduce starvation and stop any new big infrastructure that doesn't add much value otherwise all country will be like Sri Lanka and poor African countries 😭
"We need to stop the thinking of God gives us life and God will give us food if our countries doesn't have the ability to provide for them." But God has given us brains, wisdom and science; it is however political indifference, greed and selfishness that stops us. American libertarianism states, that scarcity will increase supply as people find a strong interest in pushing it up; unfortunately libertarianism falls into that trap that Western thought often finds itself in - that "all men are created equal".
I don't get this separate conseptualization of "the food system" as a different thing than just "the food sector of the economy". It is not a global distribution system, it is a global system of trade, which is the exact reason why it's not just food getting more expensive. The global trade-system is shrinking, and will stay way more local for the foreseable future. I understand that the speakers want to focus on the hunger and need for the poor people of the world, but misidentifying the problem like that is not really helpful in actually getting people to vote for better policies, which is the only legitimate way to get countries to do something about this. Though I wouldn't hold my breath, the way that things are developing now it will be years before any semblance of "normality" is back in many parts of the world. Some places will be irreversibly changed through these next few years sadly. They are right though, that it is all about bad incentives, so we need to focus on building smarter incentives!
The entire system through which food is grown, harvested, distributed, prepared, consumed, and disposed is a food system. That’s the foundation for understanding. The global trade of agricultural commodities, and reliance on those networks is only one arrangement of one recent aspect of that system. You’re trying to give markets the primacy, and a deterministic role. Which is why you think there is or ever was a normal that was could recover, and that incentives will do anything but reward managers and shareholders. What matters in a system are how that system is structured, what institutions, values and interests determine its qualities, character and quantities. Turning food into a commodity is really the core problem. Food and people are fundamentally devalued. The result will be hunger and starvation.
@@Rnankn Simply put and to the point, there never was a global "food system" before or without the global market, and I don't think we know of a way of doing it outside of such markets yet. Not politically, not logistigally, and not always even technologically. If all of that is breaking down, as I happen to believe it is, then the next few years will tough for a lot of people. Sad as it is, and hopefully we can help many. I just don't think there is a clear path to help everyone, or even most. More on the economic model being fixed, a new and better system might be able to exist, but it is as of yet entirely hypothetical, and such a vision is right no quite far from realistic in the short term. I never claimed the current system has to exist for global "food systems" to exist, but we are so far from anything that could facilitate that that it seems utterly naive to even suggest it as a solution to current and pressing issues. I'd say: Be realistic! But you can also just keep dreaming, it might not be entirely useless. Possibly. Doubtfully.
Such poor journalism, it's a shame. Food issues are more severe and more multicausal then presented. Some important factors not mentioned: Farming mechanization, low fuel cost, transportation, fertilizers, weedicides, herbicides and fungicides, these make 3x-10x production gains and production possible were it was not. China's ban on phosphates (July-2021), potash war export ban (Belarus, Russia) high natural gas prices driving nitrogenated fertilizer cost up as well as herbicides and pesticides, COVID lock down effects on production of farming equipment, disruption in maritime transport (higher prices), etc... FYI: I'm buy mostly organic (I can afford it), but the reality is that fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides make modern agriculture exist - and it feeds most of the world. Sri Lanka become the first country to fully adopt organic farming (2019 ban on all chemical fertilizer, pesticides, weedicides and fungicides)... and now famine. Too much, too fast, too drastic, too tragic. Hopefully we will all get there: cleaner, healthier, better world for all , yet we can make things way worse with well intended rationally short sighted, ideologically driven decisions.
My country India which is the second largest producer of wheat . In crop season 2022 their is 25% decrease in wheat production due to very High Temperature Wind in March and April. Climate change is a very serious issue ,all world have to think about it collectively 👍
Thank you. This needs to be told. I have mentioned this many times. Southern California's drought means their food production is down 60%, Texas rice production down 40%, I could go on. It is a food disaster that will destroy societies and economies in many countries.
Hopefully Indian people will turn against Adani who is a major driver of the coal caused climate crisis. Stop allowing your corrupt government to turn different religions who used to live peacefully side by side against each other and focus on the real climate culprits.
Across the world in California, we grow most of America’s veggies, fruits and nuts. 49 of my neighbors just lost their homes to fire caused by high heat and by exceptional drought.
The Colorado River, which provides water to one in eight Americans, is going dry.
At the same time, we have kept growing crops using groundwater, which is drying up.
judgement from God for allowing all those scam telemarketers.....
@@gamingtonight1526 Those numbers are relatable, I had know idea.
Plague, war, famine...a classical sequence.
War,s plagues then famine.
The four horsemen???
@@vivliforia2262 nah Those are too generic.
The unfolding of Revelation
@@akhonalunga1035 ...if it is the unfolding, then this has to be the most bizarre, disastrous creation any Creator could have created. Personally, I think the Creator is mentally unstable and has powerful creatures that continually declare his magnificence around his throne forever and ever. Don't know about you, but this guy definitely has a serious ego problem.
Sri Lanka cannot feed its people. How could this happen in a country with fertile land? Incompetent politicians. It is the same in Africa. Food production has to be the priority
It's not really about ability but economics and politics.
Basically, the world is forced to trade in dollars, developing countries are forced to buy grain from Europe, failing to agree to this insanity results in sanctions from the so called "developed world".
It's a means of control.
Because Sri Lanka banned fertiliser usage and that cut crop yields by over half therefore needing to import food in massive amounts.
@@dalemsilas8425 not even true, the issue isn't about dollar or trade
@@lightzpy8049 Every drop of gasoline consumed worldwide was bought in dollars. Its called the "petro-dollar".
Try to buy crude with anything else you'll feel the spiky arm of international sanctions.
@@lightzpy8049 Manure and compost have been used as fertiliser since the dawn of farming. Those are excuses for being inefficient and unserious.
We got to learn to take care of ourselves. Relying on the machinery of globalism is riskier than it seems. All over the world, we need to return to our roots and garden, preserve food, raise animals, cook, etc. This was largely the case in "poorer countries" until the people lost their land by the hand of corrupt governments and corporations.
Farming animals is incredibly inefficient and unethical. It creates more problems than solutions.
@@eugeneshemchuk5731 Here is the thing: animals can eat a lot of agricultural byproducts that we can't eat. 90% of what cows eat in the US is grass/hay/plant stalks, e.g. things we can't eat. In turn they produce rich fertilizer and nutrient dense food. There aren't plant based sources of protein that are as complete as animal based proteins. Plus raising animals in humane conditions gives the animals a good life and good living conditions. The food they provide is much healthier than those factory farmed by the globalists.
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
@@eugeneshemchuk5731 only when the animals are being farmed within the structure of "big ag"
Even Belarus is aware of this and totally independent, makes the best leather shoes and even have their own refrigerator. Rely on no one, preppers motto!
Please do not use the war in Ukraine as substantive cause for hunger in Africa.
We have been more affected by internal conflicts in Africa and changing climate long before the Ukraine crisis.
Most Africans South of the Sahara do not depend on wheat as main food. Cassava, sweet potatoes, green bananas, yams, pumkins etc.
I know
Between 2018 and 2020, Africa imported some 44 percent of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine
Since the recent disruptions, wheat prices have risen some 45 percent, according to the African Development Bank.
Ukraine accounts for about 10% of the world’s wheat and supplies large quantities of grain to North African states, which other sources could not replace even in the long run, according to current model calculations by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, based in Kiel, Germany.
Please, do not use the war in Ukraine as active measure.
Thank you for addressing the "greed inflation". Now, can we please talk about the fact that only a handful of companies control most of the sales of food, and how we can break up those monopolies and get some honest competition on price?
have you ever considered that this is the only way to feed the 10+ million people cities all over the world? you cant feed cities without industrial farming and you need these big companies to have industrial farming.
the only way food is even this cheap is because of those companies, look up how much food cost during the last century compared to income. food has never been cheaper.
the problem in a lot of those countries is that people went from rural to urban areas, they went form at least being able to feed themselves to only consuming food. thats why 90% of their food is sometimes imported.
maybe we should stop trying to cram ever more people into cities or we could constantly blame the system that allowed so many people to exist in the first place.
@@weedling3552 If you want to convince me that the ONLY way to feed large cities is to have big monopolies and no competition, then you literally have to disprove EVERY alternative solution. That will require quite a bit of evidence. There are laws against monopolies for good reasons. They just need to be enforced.
@@Baekstrom what alternatives are there?
thats the point, no one has a better system, that can feed more people. its tragic, it sucks, but thats how it is.
you need chemical fertilizers, you need monoculture, simply to feed all those people that dont produce their own food.
subsistence farming cant feed cities.
organic farming cant feed cities.
some 80% of the population need to be farmers in a subsistence agriculture.
organic farming is basically a priviledge of the rich already.
a true monopoly would be just one company, so it not even a real monopoly, but thats besides the point.
the point is that you need huge companies, because you need a lot of land, a lot of machines and a lot of starting capital. today a few farmers can do the work of thousands, but only with the right equipment.
thats why food prices are so low in the first place, if you are going to break up those companies, all the poor people starve, because only a big company can provide the scale of production necessary to make food that cheap.
(also keep in mind a lot of these poor countries are in regions that arent as fertile as most countries in the north)
just look up the population sizes of those countries before the industrial revolution, to get a picture of who many people those lands can actually support, with organic farming/subsistence farming.
i dont like this situation, i prefer to buy local and organic, but its a sad reality.
look what banning chemical fertilizers did to sri lankas yields!
@@weedling3552 Community gas suppliers also need industrial capacity, but often belong to the state or operate under fixed regulations.
At a minimum, staple foods could be managed by an international agency, based on firmly negotiated principles. The necessary technology would have to be made freely available by the "leading" nations in an international process. As a gigantic investment in the future of mankind.
Well, the alternative is Mad Max. Let everyone choose.
@@fabp.2114 "Community gas suppliers also need industrial capacity, but often belong to the state or operate under fixed regulations." true and some nations have huge strategic grain/food reserves.
so nations already kind of do that, but i really cant see humanity as a whole agreeing on doing this. (even if it could help) the "international" part is really the problem.
besides the leading nations having very little immediate incentive to do so, (they wont starve, the poor ones will) i think the biggest problem would be to distribute tech in general, machines and knowhow specifically.
there are also a dozen other problems that would have to be solved, like the value of money/time.
or what if farmers dont want to plant needed crops because they have better alternatives?
also what if countries still fail to keep up with the negotiated prices and become dependent on constant aid?
its one thing to give the machines and tell them how to operate them, its an other to teach people how to maintain and maybe even improve on the tech they are given.
also i think it would be hard to for example, just transfer existing machines, (if you can even convince people to give them up) im half philippino, half swiss and i know that all the tech (laptops, watches, phones) made for switzerland will likely corrode and break after about 3 years in the philippines due to the high humidity and salty sea air. (the chinese stuff breaks even faster, but thats normal)
theres only a single japanese company, that i know of, that has recently begun making things with a new steel alloy/mixture? that wont corrode at all in the sea air.
so things as simple as that would make it very hard to actually distribute what we have now, i think a lot would have to be purpose built, so it can last.
i think its likely humanity will find ways to produce even cheaper food, specially meat/protein.
the poor countries will likely be the main consumers. the poor will continue to flee the country sides and the cities will grow and the few remaining self reliant people will become dependent on food handouts of the worst imaginable quality.
the poor always loose and the rich always win :(
i dont really see any solution to this at the moment, we had this coming since we started with industrial agriculture, it allowed our population to explode, but the system is fragile due to its own efficiency (only a few countries need to export to feed billions)
maybe we can change this over time, but i dont think much can be done effectively immediately, the situation will hopefully stabilize soon.
but like breaking up the companies, would 100% lead to an instant world wide famine.
Thanks DW,another great documentary, people all over the world should read and hear.
If you look at the Deniers, Climate-Change becomes more obvious and more proven
than even if you just look at the Thing itself. I mean, Science is nice
and totally settled in this case but what really is most-telling for me personally
is a Look at those that deny the Science.
Hbomberguy covered Denial with a whole video, so that's extremly telling.
Africa is starving yet Africa is where human fertility is the highest, so basically they are only bringing in more people to starve.
This is very sad. But, the lands around the world have been over farmed for many many years and the food waste especially in the US is horrendous.
As an American I can say I waste food and don't care :)
Here in the US, we waste a huge amount of resources by encouraging animal agriculture with subsidies and promotion by the government. Animal agriculture is inherently less efficient than a plant based food system. We now feed more calories and protein to farm animals than we get from eating them or what comes out of them.
"By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests." -LA Times Mar 26, 2018"
"But it doesn’t have to be this way. New research suggests the country could feed all 327 million Americans - plus roughly 390 million more - by focusing on plants.
If U.S. farmers took all the land currently devoted to raising cattle, pigs and chickens and used it to grow plants instead, they could sustain more than twice as many people as they do now, according to a report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."-LA Times Mar 26, 2018"
Title and author follow- "By going vegan, America could feed an additional 390 million people, study suggests
BY KAREN KAPLANSCIENCE AND MEDICINE EDITOR
MARCH 26, 2018 2:56 PM PT
Link to the study within the article.
@@onetime4502 Everyone who can compost should do so. It greatly reduces the methane that would otherwise be produced in landfills. Methane is 80 times more potent than CO2 (as a green house gas) during the first 20 years. Food waste is to be avoided, but composting reduces the problems caused by it.
One issue that no one is talking is massive explosive population growth in those countries.
the world is struggling to feed itself and government response pretty much everywhere at this point is to attack or make it more difficult for the farmers who are trying to grow that food.
The world wastes 3 BILLION tonnes a year of crops like soy, grain and corn.. feeding it to cows.. also the livestock industry make up 80% of the air able land yet only produces 20% of the worlds calories.. didn’t mention that??
In 2030 you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, it's the great reset
@@33Crazydude yup
I noticed none of the solutions included people learning to produce food for themselves. Grain isn’t even that good for you. We must start forest gardens, produce our own protein and veggies. We also have to capture rainwater and so much more.
We will! After a few billion people have died.
Exactly, every country needs to be food independent.
The big elephant in the room is also “overpopulation” and the inability to maintain this many people in those areas. There are simply too many people to feed atm…
Check the birth rate of all major country. It's below 2.
They doing since ancient times..don't blame them
In my country women have an average of 1.19 children each.... and Spain is a net exporter of food. Africans want to have seven children each, starvation is inevitable...
Africa has been helped for over 50 years. They simply multiplied over 7 fold and became even more hungry. Now The Malthusian trap is coming down hard. What a f disaster.
Why is Ukraine so poor , if they exported so much grains ?!?!
We’re supposed to look for answers from people that broke the system that worked.
Yes, they want to make as few changes as possible. That way they can extract more wealth for a little longer, and be retired or dead by the time it faces an even worse collapse.
Wrong the system never truly worked. The system committed offense against nature and the poor and against truth and Righteousness. Now the chickens are coming home to roost as they say. The system instigated wars for profits, and helped the greedy to hoard as is evident today
The countries with the greatest food shortages resist family planning the most.
And the countries that export the most food, like Ukraine, have the fewest children.
So the problem will get a whole lot worst.
As a whole, countries and cultures that prioritize family planning and educating women do better economically because 1) the women are able to work in better paying roles, and 2) families have children they can better provide for. Also, making protection like condoms more available helps prevent deadly diseases like AIDS.
Even I was surprised to see that they didn't mention that point. Population control is a solution to multiple problems
@@AashayChaukekar It's not politically correct to talk about it
@@AashayChaukekar "Population control" is a slippery slope to murder and eugenics. Giving people the ability to choose whether or not to have children and how many is more freeing and empowers people to be able to make good decisions
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient.
Having populations larger than the country can provide food, shelter, water and housing for is unsustainable.
Comparative advantage and international trade make the world richer and safer. International organizations need to continue to work at keeping the world stable and prosperous for everyone.
Education, especially of the girls is the key. If they learn then they will be employable, if then they have money then they have choices, if they choose then they will choose to have less children and a better life for themselves and child.
@@linmal2242 Male mentalities there have to change. That is the main problem. In many countries, educated girls are despised. Men want uneducated girls and often many children. Because uneducated girls have to look up to them, which is great for their ego. This is not my idea. You can read it in many sources, like in articles on the Guardian, on NGO websites like Girls not brides etc.
@@alexomar9168 Richer and safer for who? The West is in crisis partially due to outsourcing jobs and not doing enough to address repercussions. Even Adam Smith knew it would be a problem to outsource jobs, but the neoliberal globalists ignored it. Global food trade also undermined poor countries autonomy when it came to food stability. Supply chain problems, like Ukraine, now causes people to starve.
So we produce enough food to feed every person on the planet, but imperatives like greed and conflict dictate that people have to starve as a strategy to achieve various political and economic goals. Not to mention waste and the role that plays. Developed nations throw away over a quarter of the food they produce. Maybe we don't know how to do anything properly besides being awful to each other.
We call this system capitalism. Those with the capital get to use their wealth to hord resources.
That the developed countries throw away 25% of the food is BS those statistics count straw , oil press cakes, peel, bones and pulpe as discarted food evenso most of it could only ne digested by animals. And it developing nations the percentage of „discarte“ food is equality high.
Bear in mind you’re critical of the systems that allow such massive food production in the first place
Have you heard of such things as transportation costs? This is one of the reasons why food is just thrown away as it is pricier to transport it than to just throw it. Secondary lets assume we transport all the food needed everywhere, what effect will it have on the local market, how can a farmer compete with free food given away. The result will be even more unemployed farmers in mostly agrarian countries where they make up the majority of the population. Free aid is one of the reasons africa is not developing, instead of giving free food we need to invest in the local produce and infrastructure so those countries can at least sustain themselves.
@noazucar sure it does the caplistist class buys politicians for that very reason all the time.
The same story throughout history over and over again the problem is people don’t change. You come up with a system and people start running it and pretty soon it is gamed for the few
No, it's not the story as before. The fact is that too many countries have let their population explode until the point that they can't feed their own people,
Well, if you take a look at medieval period, when such situations occurred (famine triggers greed in merchants who start to stockpile food and selling it only to rich citizens), poor people didn't just sit and die, they burned more affluent parts of the city that was stockpiling food so there was more food for everyone. It was enough predictable that states started to develop policies around it, like how to prepare stockpiles of food, social programs to distribute it and how to prevent merchants to overprice it when it is needed the most.
LOVE OIL. LOVE FRACKING.
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There only needs to be a mention of a coming food shortage and the retailers start price gauging. They are making a killing right now. They are not paying the Farmers any more for the food they grow despite inputs going through the roof. Farmers can't make a living from that so they stop planting. Food crises gets even worse. I'm a farmer. At least I can grow enough to feed myself but I might have to get another day job if I don't start getting paid higher prices. So we can add greedy grocers to the list of why there will be a food shortage.
the problem now is that the stockpiles and the people that hoard are thousands of kilometres away from the people that are starving.
@@jeronimotamayolopera4834 What African countries not capable be self sufficient has to do with oil and fracking?
You mean "How capitalism decides poor people aren't profitable to feed."
It doesn't need to decide that. Poor people aren't profitable to feed. In addition, poor people can no longer feed themselves.
The main problem is not any of them. The main problem is higher fertality rate in poor countries while less fertality rate in rich countires. If you can feed only 1 children in Africa, so it is obivous 6 fertality rate is a big mistake for them. Rich countries does not have to feed poor just because they dont choose to birth children while poors choose army of children.
Greed inflation.
Sir You're 100% right.
Increase in prices are often associated with greed for profit.
We need to break up these monopoly from these big companies.
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
In such an important place in Germany, a tiger should have been sent to guard it, or a dog should have been sent, but in the end a pig was sent. "
Wow DW your documentaries are more educative than business class courses. Keep up the good work.
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse?
You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down?
Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
Which good work. It's all about Africa ! They did the same with COVID yet we accounted for only 2% global deaths. They wish we will all die in Africa. Cursed be dw staff members and their children they die before we do
The critical problem is primarily lack of supply chain infrastructure in places like Africa.
All the solution suggested will never work due to the internal resistance of the system. The best solution is to teach the people to roll up their sleeves and start growing their own food. You can grow food anywhere and you don't need to DEPEND on others for survival
People in urban areas, that is most people in the world, can't grow their food. Without owning land people can't feed themselves. The problem is much more complex than you suggest.
Current food crises highlight the injustice of using grains as animal feed. Globally, the livestock sector uses:
🌾20% of wheat
🌽61% of corn
🌱80% of soy
🗺83% of farmland
But it only provides:
🚫18% of global calories
We need a shift towards plant-based diets to build more resilient and sustainable food systems.
I can keep a family of five sufficient in onions for twelve months using 2m² of land and about 7 hours of labour. Instead of doing that 99% of people in the west put astroturf in their gardens, go to the shops and buy onions with money. Onions have a global price, it's cheaper to import onions from New Zealand (!) than to store them in warehouses, so we ship them around the globe, it's a bizarre set of events. Put some compost over your lawns and grow stuff.
Totally agree with you! One can make the front yard look amazingly appealing by planting a cottage garden instead of a lawn. Combining food and beauty as well as creating biodiversity ... People always compliment my garden and say how much they would like to have something like that but are simply not willing to put in the effort themselves! I don't understand this kind of apathy ... 🤔🙈
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
@@WitchOnABroomstick Thanks for that, Britain has produced some top notch gardeners, but there is one man. probably the nicest human being on the planet, who shows people that gardening is really simple and easy, Mr. Charles Dowding and he's here on UA-cam,
@@wobblybobengland Oh, that's actually very usefull for me personally! i will look it up, thank you Bob! I appreciate you!
I don't have a lawn.
Y'all kinda forgot Asia. The main aim of policy advisors have been to urge developing nations to invest for export and chase that rather than build a solid economic base at home. As a result, endogenous food supply are ignored, farming communities are lured away from it into cities to earn cash. The have been lured to allow their endogenous food production knowledge to die.
Glad it has nothing to do with over population.
They spin the news like they want to. Whether it has anything to do with reality remains a question.
It's not a supply issue... It's a demand issue to the tune of almost 8 billion. Too many people.
If these commodities are so important in the food system than countries should be producing them domestically. The biggest reason for food insecurity in some areas is the ridiculous overpopulation of those regions to the point that they can't support their own population. The best humanitarian aid that could be sent to these places is birth control. Low supply and high demand in the global trade market is causing prices to soar well above the real value, even in countries that are self-sufficient, because the global prices are artificially inflating the value even for domestically produced and sustainable resources.
Inflation is the word then recession or depression , not necessarily in that order. Some of these countries have been overpopulated but at the same time they have taken measures to control their population not withstanding all upheavals, and been able to sustain the very population with a green revolution. The population in question also has become self reliant, independent over the years and not at the cost of richer countries....not amused
@@gopalaraodasari7743 Some countries, agreed.
I agree, Places like Los Angeles and New York should be altered to be self sustaining. What is happening is that they import their foods from thousands of miles away. That leaves the locals of those areas scrambling for land to support themselves on. True also for Europe.
LOVE OIL. LOVE FRACKING.
The thing is that people in those overpopulated countries WANT to have many children, since that is how they see a secured future for themselves.
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It has always been on life support, like with everything else in a late capitalistic system.
Climate change and greed is being a great problem for our days.
We are watching a world who is almost collapsed.
This is an unthinkable! How can the entire global depend on a country of 44 million people as the main source of grain?
Its always like that. Most people are very unproductive and very few people innovate and produce most of The things.
Poor nations have to sell their grains to rich nations to feed livestock, not to mention the insane amount of water used for both and the burning of fossil fuels to transport all of this. It’s a sick cycle
Great report, we need more of these.
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse?
You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down?
Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
I'm a missionary to Haiti and the country suffers from much hunger , terrible drout, terrible earthquakes, corruption and gang violence.Most Haitians live on a small bowl of rice daily.Please help Haiti
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I feel for their struggle, things are not ideal at all. Maybe buying grain from far away is not the best system though, hope they can invest in sustainable local agriculture.
How to make food cheaper, sustainable, and more available? Grow it yourself in your backyard, that's what I do lol.
Good points. An under water reservoir is a need.
Producers are not going to ship too far as the end user cost would be too high and the producer is not going to want sell for less as they do not want to make a loss.
Yeah problem is they aint innovative, they just multiply and migrate.
I think the problem is with the continued drive to make $ Profits. That's what's causing the disruption. I believe only so much $$ can be made.And
All industry's are trying to make the greatest profits. With less & less quality. So the circle of production & consumption should actually be more equal in value. Buts it isn't. It's all based on profits. What's going to happen when folks cant afford it?????
@Christina Evans Many will starve. This cannot be prevented. Try to prepare to survive.
Rich countries also don't want to help as much as they can.
Grow your own foods, if you want affordable foods.
Drill your own oil, if you want cheap oil.
Build your own economy, if you want an economy.
Yes, that why we make slave and take more land. xD
I have no faith in humanity.
Even my closest family has recently betrayed me.
I'll adopt you.
When the concept of planetary overpopulation first arose it was predicted that if we did not act to reduce the population nature would do it for us. This is what that looks like. What is not mentioned in this report is the effect of food shortages on violence. Throughout history acquisition of natural resources has been the major cause of wars worldwide. There is no natural resource more important than food. It does not take an Einstein to see what food shortages will lead to. Between starvation and the resulting wars our population will go down. That is nature at work. That is what it looks like. This is the outcome that was predicted many decades ago.
What is touched upon here but not fully explained is the market for food. Aka capitalism. A core facet of capitalism is unlimited growth. The capitalist system measures everything in terms of growth. If a market grows it is good. If a market does not grow that is bad and must be made to grow. Now consider that we live on a planet with finite resources and you will see how ridiculous this concept is. But it is this ridiculous concept that controls pretty well everything on our planet. The capitalist system is deeply entrenched in pretty well everything on our planet. It has been shown time and time again that there is nothing that the people who profit from the capitalist system will not do to protect it. Climate Change and the sixth mass extinction are perfect examples of the depths of their depravity. So, the end result is a very bleak future while those in power fight over the dwindling resources available on our planet.
That is unfortunate when you consider the potential of the human race. Here we are on the brink of so many wonderful things, and yet we are destroying ourselves.
Are you mental the population isn't the issue the video literally said we produce enough for 11 Billion the issue is greed.
Thanks. That was a good comment. I see overpopulation and overconsumption as the two main problems. And both help the interest of the market, of Capitalism. Nature suffers, but hardly anyone care. Great that you mentioned the sixth mass extinction of species. Hardly anyone ever does.
unchecked capitalist greed will doom us all for sure
@@alixmordant489 you mention capitalism and still think overconsumption and overpopulation as the main problem? overconsumption is a symptom of capitalism (which is the actual disease) and we are clearly not overpopulated if there's enough food to feed EVERYONE twice over. Capitalism is what puts profits over the wellbeing of the earth and all it's inhabitants.
@@gtenhave We are overpopulated. Also, that food you mentioned is created by destroying ecosystems, with lots of CO2 output and many "chemicals" needed. That system may very soon fail. We already have loss of soil, water shortages etc. (And please, do not come up with technocratic pseudo solutions that just create more problems. Weird, that even people who cannot stand "Capitalism" always use its tools when justifying their own pet-peeve points.)
And there is more than food needed for a decent human life. Water, building materials like cement (which contains sand, of which we already have a critical shortage), wood etc. Energy for heating or cooling. Clothing.
We already use all ecosystems to the max. In the West, due to overconsumption, we use up the resources of multiple earths.
Fact: Just because many people are poor now and therefore near zero net emitters of CO2 does not mean they do not have a negative impact on ecosystems already.
And they (understandably) do not want to stay poor! They too crave for (over)consumption. We are all humans, sharing the same flaws.
"Clean energy" is not a silver bullet, no cure-all. All ecosystems are at the brink, even if the media seems to only talk (sadly too little) about Climate Change.
What about something pretty important, WATER!?
Yeah, it's a great idea to produce food practically on your doorstep, but you need WATER for that. Not salt sea water, fresh sweet water, which is becoming rare in many places.
That's at the least as important as cleaning up the transport market.
If you tax the rich, they will simply compensate for it through their customers by raising the prices.
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
Not a single statement about global animal agriculture.
It's the logical consequence of an aspired (high) standard of living and uncontrolled reproduction. World population rose from 1 billion in 1804 to 2 billion in 1927 and to 8 billion in 2023. In combination with human made climate change this is no wonder to me. What we will see as a consequence: More conflicts, diseases etc. Mankind is doomed if it continues the way it does and I doubt mankind can change.... this was known for many years but nothing happened so far. Looks like humans need to be put on the list of extinction endangered species.
Back in 1970s we tried to promote Zero Population Growth.
That wasn't received well by wall street and thier concept of "sustainable growth:
Over population IS the driver for all the crisis we face. Have.
Thanks for your comment. !
As I say often..Too many ticks on the moose....
People starved even back when there were a few million on the planet.
@@zinjanthropus322 true. But in not in numbers of 10s of millions. But they weren't dependent upon big business to feed them . And it was often caused by greed leading to war. It's also what pushed mankind to migrate to most of the planet.
Population Explosion was created by thr burning of Fossil fuels too. Also a big money program.
@@zinjanthropus322 Sure. And the invention of modern agriculture techniques, fertilizers, a global food system etc. etc. made things considerably better. I would even say, we were on save ground. But constantly rising populations ate up our success stories. Just as our greed for endless consumption eats up our successes in energy saving or new clean energy technologies. Overpopulation and overconsumption are our downfall. And what is wrong about contraceptives and small families anyway.
Humanitarian organization Oxfam has predicted the world will run out of food around 2050 when a growing world population exceeds food growing capacity.
Nato should Not have provoked Russia into this war.
These guide stones were on my list of sites to visit, hopefully they will very soon be restored & protected.
If the United States and Europe and Britain. Where not so busy keeping Africa down an under developed. There would not be a food crisis. Africa could produce enough food products to feed the world. Africa is the worlds Agriculture Center. But the rich countries are more concern with mining for Diamonds and Gold, and other mineral, oil and other precious metals that will make them rich. But you can't eat iron, or gold, you can't drink oil. It is this greed and these large corporations that have brought us to this day.
What an eye opener! thank you DW
I doubt that these big corporations would let decentralized production happen. They would at least hamper the process of implementation becuase it is clraerly not in their interest.
The countries most vulnerable are also those with the highest fertility and population growth over the last few generations. Moreover the global industrial food system produces food energy which embodies far more energy from fossil fuel than from sunlight
Why can't I view the other reply? Yes, took 100 years to use millions of years of oil. That bubble bursting is when SHTF, but what's your opinion?
@@jerrygaber6150 it was foreseen in 1865 - see the Wikipedia page for ‘The Coal Question’ from that year. The author’ name Jevons is still a household word in economics
too much power in the hands of elites cause this.
You hit the nail on the head.
14:06 "What about the greed inflation thats taking place?". companies of this magnitude have to be held accountable.
That stolen grain from Ukraine is going to go sour.. it will only be good for beer or making penicillin and LSD if it doesn't get to the countries that usually buy it.
This is really well done, DW. Thanks for brining this into the spotlight
Non veg is the only reason for hunger around the world
The rich will not be rich if they starve the poor. They don't know where their actual wealth comes from.
But we are not starving anyone in my country. My country is a net exporter of food. Women in Spain have an average of 1.19 children each. Why don't Africans just grow their own food and limit the size of their families. How long can rich countries be accused of starving people that refuse to correct their situation?
@@jaycristoval6155 there was an african country that fed all of africa.. then we forced them to let mugabe take power and rhodesia collapsed into communism and hyperinflation...
then we forced south africa to give the country to the ANC..
@@jaycristoval6155 no amount of explanation is going to get you to be able to consider other people as human beings. just say how you actually feel. stop pretending
@@jaycristoval6155 you do not export more than you consume. no european country EVER has.
@@saturationstation1446 I looked it up after you commented.... España is a net exporter of food.
The climate crisis means so many food growing areas around the world are suffering from environmental problems.
Canada is one of the grain countries. Slava Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Too many people is the problem, not a lack of food.
Glad that DW keeps being a reliable source for informations :) Good job guys!
How are we supposed to believe that Ukraine not being able to get goods out because of the war is a viable excuse?
You mean to tell me that half the globe and essentially every major power, besides a select few, has given hundreds of millions of dollars of “aid”, flown in missile systems, flown in large military crafts, and a place where several us diplomats went to(Ukraine) that we can’t help them export those items to stop hunger and help drive the cost down?
Please Good citizen, wake up to these lies.
Good video. One thing not discussed here is over-population. The world has nearly 8 billion people now, many in developing and poor countries where resources are scarce and/or non-existent. This also needs to be taken into the whole picture. Mother Earth cannot sustain this many people for much longer.
By 2050, with the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion, our food supplies will be under far greater stress. Demand will be 60% higher than it is today, but climate change, urbanization, and soil degradation will have shrunk the availability of arable land, according to the World Economic Forum.
Source: TIME
Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Good going, what now?
The global population has ALREADY peaked and is entering a decline. This is because the West controlled their pop growth WAY too well; the West needs to return to having kids so that there are enough educated and skilled laborers to support the world. The developing world will not be even close to ready to support themselves for another fifty years.
If you cant farm well, you damn well should not be having 6 kids.
It’s WAR not a conflict !
Please, consider this before writing in description “conflict”! And yes, hunger is because of russia, not because of Ukraine.
Talk well, if there is conflict between Russia and Ukraine without sanctions will this happen
OK woman
No Nato chose to impose Sanctions that is what caused all this. A war or conflict between 2 nations should have stayed between those 2 nations
Neither Russia nor Ukraine declared war on the other.
@Primal Fish No, because none of them STARTED the war in Ukraine, Russia DID though.
Buckle up, we´re in for a ride.....
Plants food NOT GOLF COURSE countries should take care there own PEOPLE
Spinoza claims that the mind and body are one and the same. But he also claims that the mind thinks and does not move, whereas the body moves and does not think.
So many life’s saved from exploitation, cruelty ( meat/ dairy industry) and perhaps recovering our forests 🌳
Brilliant channel. I learn so much, thankyou.
Every government and citizen of the world such be obliged to watch this video or at least know about the topic. We can start helping by sharing this video.
Lets Highlight something not covered in this segment. Global trade has hurt poorer countries more than anything. Specifically African and Asian because they are forced to use outside commodities more than their own. Suppression of domestic goods and the refusal to raise tariffs on imported goods by (corrupt governments) means that the domestic supply is more expensive compared to the imported. If Farmers in Africa and Asia are being out done by foreign supply then they will no longer do farm work because the costs of running the farm outweigh the income earned, so they leave farming. In times of Crisis we always see a reduced level of supply out of fear that their will not be enough for citizens of the countries supplying the goods to the supply chain. Tariffs are essential to countries that do not have a manufacturing industries and his GPA . It allows them to keep their supplies and economies stable
Thank you DW
I still think the root cause is not the inefficiency of the system, but that we're constantly pushing it to the limits.
In a free economy there is always a surplus while there is always a deficit. This is because of the dynamic nature of the system, which can react naturally to the changes in the environment. An exchange (of stocks or goods) is a great example of this - these are the places where demand and supply can find each other very fast, and work out a reasonable price.
This was so 100 years ago, even 1000 years ago (in a local scale). What has changed is the population of Earth which increases demand constantly, and depletes resources constantly.
If you look at it like this, you will realize how ingenious this system is. When there is more demand, it incentivizes suppliers to innovate with higher prices. This is how irrigation was invented, rice and wheat has become the main celery products, pesticides and herbicides have spread, mono-cultures have become dominant, GMO was developed, mass farms of antibiotic-fed livestock has become the norm, and so on. At the same time the same practices have transformed Earth - reduced biodiversity, changed the climate, and so on.
This is not EVIL. This is a necessity to answer the challenge of population growth. (FYI - in 1910 the population of Earth was 2 billions. Today over 8 billions, and still growing exponentially.)
Let's say you change the system to one which can distribute the food for 12 billions evenly. Luckily for you, it was invented around 200 years ago - it is called Communism.
In this world everyone of the 12 billion will get their nutrition needs covered - everyone will get just enough cereals, diary, oil, and maybe a bit of fruit to cover their bodily needs. Most won't be happy with that, and will get around, or overthrow the system, but let's ignore that for a moment.
But. As soon as the population steps over the 12 billion, or there is any disturbance in the system (drought, transportation problem, etc.), then suddenly a large portion of the 12 billion will die, almost immediately, as there is no buffer (surplus) in the system. The starving population will cause a ripple effect, their work will be missing from production and transportation of the food, which causes further shortages and more people starving. It is not just a distant possibility, but it will certainly happen once the system reaches the limits of its capacity. Furthermore there is no incentive to grow capacity any more, so the growing population will collapse every time it reaches the same limit.
I am really sorry to say, but there is no perfect solution to this equation. A continuously growing population will always result in people starving.
What I see as a possible solution is reducing the population to a sustainable level. We're well over this level today, so just capping it won't help. This would lead to different problems, but I would say those would be better problems to have.
Long scree. Little content. The world population growth has been linear since the 70s. Communism is no more able to handle a non-growing world than capitalism (witness China today), and both are going down in flames as we sit here typing.
Also, communism cannot be efficient. Capitalism cannot be fair. What is needed is a pure democracy using the computers to implement the desires of people -- that is, we need an end to work.
The Venus Project! Worth taking a look!
No. Animal ag contributes 87% of global warming if you factor in rainforest destruction.. which has only been done recently .. study is published and peer reviewed
I really enjoyed your answer. Thanks for taking the time to share it!
The people need to grow there own food.
maybe if they didn't cut down all the forests for wood and farms
@Sarfaraz Ardesher Africans burning plastic off copper wire wouldn't have anything to do with it, just the western industrial revolution that brought you electricity.
There are solutions to the global food crisis, but the barriers to change enshrined in the mechanisms of capitalism will ensure that nothing is done until millions of people have already died.
Make that billions of people.
Unfortunately as long as we have a society that values capital higher than humanity we won't do any of the suggestions in this video to save lives. We currently pride ourselves on valuing capital not humanity it is right there in the term caplistist society.
Unfortunately, we are also beast in the nature of our humanity. We are beast with brains capable to destroy this planet.
15:50 "Precision Fermentation"...
How about we just skip that and get straight to the Soylent Green? 😅😆
Enough with separating industrialized from developing! We are one. There's never been a better time to unify under a single banner!
yes, the industrialized countries don't have babies coming out of their ears... so cut the cheap BS - you just want the intelligent few to give you a free meal ticket.. well, we have had enough of your BS.. work for your own meal ticket and stop having lots and lots of babies
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How I see this is that too many people live where there is nothing to eat. I don't know how is that problem of Europe, corporations or global food market.
Atleast be sympathetic.
Next time in those situations will be you people.
Russia is going to cut off Nord stream pipeline 2. Haven't you had enough Gas Problems.
This also can lead to higher inflation and eventually to hunger.
I felt like this video was low key advocating communism, which has worked disastrously whenever its been implemented.
Quite the opposite in my opinion. In communism there is central planning. This video is advocating for a more distributed food production system with localized control.
As i get older (35 now) the less hope for humanity i have....
Those corporations are responsible for cheap and reliable food supply. They are dominating trade because they are more efficient, which leads to lower prices.
Foolish. Only having 4 companies control the worlds ports are unsustainable.
Yes, but that is the perpetual hazard of monopoly in a capitalist market.
Once one or a collaborating few gain dominance of a competative market, even if by providing best value, the competative magic vanishes.
Remember, profit is the only real goal of a corporation. And as an end consumer of food, profit is a pure loss to you.
So just switch brands, right?
Your "consumer choice" might not be a real one, when the ultimate production comes back to one or a few companies, brand is just a rigged label glue shell game.
You need fossil fuels to grow and distribute the food. We are running out of fossil fuels (and shouldn't use them anyway, because their use causes climate change). Solution: stop population growth immediately!
Immediately? How unrealistic. How exactly do you want to do that? No, we just need energy not fossil fuels. Ever heard of renewable energy?
Wow stop men from having sex... problem solved. And renewable energy... we are past that. I mean on ur homestead sure. Not on any industrial or commercial farming. That's not going to happen. That ship has sailed. But wait there's more.... America has banned Abortion. Therefore we will have 36 million women affected by more pregnancy. Just another day thar ends in Y.
Interesting.. how does the planet sustain with negative population growth? 🤔 And once you achieve said sustainability, who actually benefits, assuming there are no humans after a century?
Why is the world going hungry, when other parts of the world are wasting, and purposely destroying foods?
Because they can’t pay for it.
That woman who stood looking at the meat section of the supermarket and turned away without taking any says it all. That's what I do too. I hardly ever eat meat anymore, I can't afford it.
meat is extremely expensive in resources to farm.. better we only eat very little or no meat...
I do not as well though can afford, eating animal corpses, thanks, no
thank you DW team for this
Reducing dependence of meat and fish subsistence (whole plant bases diet) will go a long way to optimize the calories that are available. It will also go a long way to reducing climate change.
People in Yemen are dieing of Hunger since long🤐
ssshhh stay on message! russia bad, and russia bad..
We need to stop the thinking of God gives us life and God will give us food if our countries doesn't have the ability to provide for them. We need to decrease our birth rate and invest more on agriculture to reduce starvation and stop any new big infrastructure that doesn't add much value otherwise all country will be like Sri Lanka and poor African countries 😭
"We need to stop the thinking of God gives us life and God will give us food if our countries doesn't have the ability to provide for them."
But God has given us brains, wisdom and science; it is however political indifference, greed and selfishness that stops us.
American libertarianism states, that scarcity will increase supply as people find a strong interest in pushing it up; unfortunately libertarianism falls into that trap that Western thought often finds itself in - that "all men are created equal".
Yeah I wonder why they have do many kids on africa or india while they starve and are overpopulated
Thx for an excellent and informative vid.
I don't get this separate conseptualization of "the food system" as a different thing than just "the food sector of the economy". It is not a global distribution system, it is a global system of trade, which is the exact reason why it's not just food getting more expensive. The global trade-system is shrinking, and will stay way more local for the foreseable future.
I understand that the speakers want to focus on the hunger and need for the poor people of the world, but misidentifying the problem like that is not really helpful in actually getting people to vote for better policies, which is the only legitimate way to get countries to do something about this.
Though I wouldn't hold my breath, the way that things are developing now it will be years before any semblance of "normality" is back in many parts of the world. Some places will be irreversibly changed through these next few years sadly.
They are right though, that it is all about bad incentives, so we need to focus on building smarter incentives!
The entire system through which food is grown, harvested, distributed, prepared, consumed, and disposed is a food system. That’s the foundation for understanding. The global trade of agricultural commodities, and reliance on those networks is only one arrangement of one recent aspect of that system. You’re trying to give markets the primacy, and a deterministic role. Which is why you think there is or ever was a normal that was could recover, and that incentives will do anything but reward managers and shareholders. What matters in a system are how that system is structured, what institutions, values and interests determine its qualities, character and quantities.
Turning food into a commodity is really the core problem. Food and people are fundamentally devalued. The result will be hunger and starvation.
Very insightful and intelligent response. 👌 I'm so sick of all this ignorance online nowadays. Have a blessed day
@@Rnankn Simply put and to the point, there never was a global "food system" before or without the global market, and I don't think we know of a way of doing it outside of such markets yet. Not politically, not logistigally, and not always even technologically. If all of that is breaking down, as I happen to believe it is, then the next few years will tough for a lot of people. Sad as it is, and hopefully we can help many. I just don't think there is a clear path to help everyone, or even most.
More on the economic model being fixed, a new and better system might be able to exist, but it is as of yet entirely hypothetical, and such a vision is right no quite far from realistic in the short term. I never claimed the current system has to exist for global "food systems" to exist, but we are so far from anything that could facilitate that that it seems utterly naive to even suggest it as a solution to current and pressing issues.
I'd say: Be realistic!
But you can also just keep dreaming, it might not be entirely useless.
Possibly.
Doubtfully.
@@ruintheliarsschemes Sorry, who was this for? =)
Such poor journalism, it's a shame. Food issues are more severe and more multicausal then presented. Some important factors not mentioned: Farming mechanization, low fuel cost, transportation, fertilizers, weedicides, herbicides and fungicides, these make 3x-10x production gains and production possible were it was not. China's ban on phosphates (July-2021), potash war export ban (Belarus, Russia) high natural gas prices driving nitrogenated fertilizer cost up as well as herbicides and pesticides, COVID lock down effects on production of farming equipment, disruption in maritime transport (higher prices), etc... FYI: I'm buy mostly organic (I can afford it), but the reality is that fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides make modern agriculture exist - and it feeds most of the world. Sri Lanka become the first country to fully adopt organic farming (2019 ban on all chemical fertilizer, pesticides, weedicides and fungicides)... and now famine. Too much, too fast, too drastic, too tragic. Hopefully we will all get there: cleaner, healthier, better world for all , yet we can make things way worse with well intended rationally short sighted, ideologically driven decisions.
Africa needs to unite and have a strong Federal government and stop their internal conflicts.
correct, but it is going the other way.. and that is because of the overriding mentality of those in Africa, not all, but a majority..
That will just lead to more wars. Nothing creates more people to fight faster than removing borders.
Replace the word Africa with the world...
Yawn... Another idealist...
The last thing Africa needs is more centralization. Africa is too tribalistic.
This is the consequences of globalization and corporate greed, where everything is a commodity.