{"id":417728,"date":"2022-03-18T01:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T01:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:36:41","slug":"looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"#Looming food shortages is world&#8217;s next &#8216;slow-moving disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b3f244711b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b3f244711b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looming-food-shortages-is-worlds-next-slow-moving-disaster\/#%E2%80%9CLooming_food_shortages_is_worlds_next_%E2%80%98slow-moving_disaster%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Looming food shortages is world&#8217;s next &#8216;slow-moving disaster&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;Looming food shortages is world&#8217;s next &#8216;slow-moving disaster'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Food prices are already skyrocketing. Some \u2014\u00a0a lot \u2014 of this comes from inflation caused by runaway government spending over the past two years. Some is from supply-chain issues. But a new problem is rearing its head, and government officials seem as likely to make it worse as to make it better.<\/p>\n<p>That problem is shortages of food and fertilizer brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions enacted by the West in response.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is a major wheat producer, but war is likely to ensure a poor spring planting and harvest. Russia is also a major grower, but sanctions and war will prevent it from exporting to most of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is also a major manufacturer of fertilizer; in fact, it is the world\u2019s largest. Second on the list is . . . China, a nation aligned with Russia and notably unfriendly to the United States and the West. (Canada is a distant third.) That has people worried.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.profarmer.com\/news\/policy-update\/us-china-hold-first-high-level-person-talks-russian-invasion-ukraine#:~:text=The%20Green%20Markets%20North%20American,Brazil%20rocketed%20a%20record%2034%25.&amp;text=Russia%2FUkraine%20situation%3A%20cyberattacks.\">The Green Markets North American Fertilizer Index,<\/a> already high, jumped 16% last Friday. Urea, a major fertilizer ingredient, went up 22%. Potash, another major ingredient (Russia is the top producer), increased 34% in Brazil, the world\u2019s leading fertilizer importer. The price for standard \u201cstarter fertilizer\u201d 10-34-0 is up 49% from a year ago and likely to go much higher.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/fertilizer-prices-surge-signal-worsening-203315347.html\">Bloomberg analyst Alexis Maxwell<\/a> calls it \u201ca slow-moving disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP110622113535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this June 22, 2011 photo, Braden Janowski walks through a watermelon field in Niles, Mich.\" class=\"wp-image-21567415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP110622113535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP110622113535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP110622113535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP110622113535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fertilizer prices are dramatically rising, which could negatively affect US farmers\u2019 ability to grow produce.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The issue is that farmland without fertilizer is vastly less productive. Without fertilizer, corn and wheat yields in the United States would decline by more than 40%. But as prices promise to go much higher, farmers will either have to skimp on fertilizer or raise prices of their own products a lot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Then, too, there are skyrocketing prices for gasoline and diesel, which are essential for today\u2019s mechanized farming and for getting food to consumers. Add these increases in cost and decreases in production to the shortages likely to come from the Ukraine invasion, and we\u2019re looking at really dramatic increases in food prices. In the West this will mean discomfort. Elsewhere it will mean starvation. Bureaucrats aren\u2019t helping.<\/p>\n<p>Some people want to put more land under cultivation. Scottish farmers and planners have asked the government to allow farmland programmed for \u201crewilding\u201d to be put back into production in response to anticipated food shortages. But that\u2019s too sensible for our green elites. Scotland\u2019s Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Lorna Slater \u2014\u00a0yes, that\u2019s her full title \u2014\u00a0has flatly refused. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/14\/green-agenda-minister-ignores-ukraine-food-crisis-warnings-in-favour-of-solving-nature-emergency\/\">According to Slater, <\/a>\u201cWe are still in a nature emergency that hasn\u2019t gone away . . . so it\u2019s a no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nature emergencies outrank human emergencies in the green world, so that\u2019s not a surprise. Voters may feel differently as prices skyrocket.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1385532358.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The price of gas continues to rise at a Marathon gas station on March 15, 2022 in Griffin, Georgia.\" class=\"wp-image-21567359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1385532358.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1385532358.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1385532358.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/1385532358.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gas prices have steadily increased the past few months and may continue during the Ukraine crisis.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The island nation of Sri Lanka offers a stark warning. A green experiment in abandoning artificial fertilizer there \u2014 encouraged by the Rockefeller Foundation \u2014 was a \u201cbrutal and swift\u201d economic and humanitarian disaster, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/03\/05\/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis\/\">Foreign Policy reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4815756\/\"> self-sufficient<\/a> in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation\u2019s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FP continues: \u201cHuman costs have been even greater. Prior to the pandemic\u2019s outbreak, the country had proudly achieved upper-middle-income status. Today, half a million people have sunk back into poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/38164211.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Loaves of bread seen on a grocery store shelf in the New York City borough of Queens, NY, March 14, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21567463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/38164211.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/38164211.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/38164211.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/38164211.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Inflation set a new 40-year record at 7.9% in early March.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anthony Behar\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s policy, which FP describes as a \u201cfarrago of magical thinking, technocratic hubris, ideological delusion, self-dealing and sheer shortsightedness,\u201d imposed enormous human damage on the nation. But don\u2019t worry \u2014 the government and NGO officials behind it won\u2019t miss any meals. Consequences are for the little people.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-barreled threat of inflation, soaring fuel prices and shrunken food supplies, the world faces something like the same fate, and once again those responsible are unlikely to pay the price. (But maybe some will. After all, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/jul\/17\/bread-food-arab-spring\">food shortages led<\/a> to the Arab Spring riots and the overturning of governments.)<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the world\u2019s policymakers need to take a less casual <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to the well-being of the world\u2019s population. That very much includes those in the Biden administration. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack\u2019s response to concerns about fertilizer and food shortages: \u201cMaybe sacrifices are necessary.\u201d You can rest assured Vilsack won\u2019t be the one making them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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