What’s causing the global food crisis? | Inside Story

More people are hungry than ever before, and the UN warns the numbers are increasing
The UN's latest report on global hunger shows we are moving backwards.
At least 828 million people went hungry one way or another, on a daily basis, last year.
War, natural disasters and rising temperatures are threatening food security.
The prices of wheat and other crops have increased exponentially - and will continue to do so.
Billions of dollars are needed to prevent a global food crisis.
What can we do before it's too late?

Presenter: Sohail Rahman

Guests:

Nils Mollema, policy adviser on climate justice for ActionAid Netherlands
Maurice Onyango, regional head of Disaster Risk Management at Plan International
Abdolreza Abbassian, food market analyst and former senior economist at the FAOhting for and that is why I am resigning,” he said on Twitter.

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[_Painted]

45 million children are wasting away? In the USA, we have actual caves full of 1.4 billion pounds of excess cheese. We’re dumping milk into fields because we have so much extra. Please, let’s get some of these dairy products sent to feed these children immediately. Young children can digest lactose, so lactose intolerance won’t be a problem. If these children stay malnourished, they can develop long term health problems and mental deficits even if they survive. Every moment lost in getting food to these children is reducing humanity’s future potential and increasing our future disease burden.

[mbens]

Poverty, hunger, malnourishment, famine, high mortality, high birth rate, etc ...These have been going on for decades. Many countries are still plagued by the same problems today. Most of the problems are due to man-made factors.

[neillschrenk]

In Africa, the problem is most people do not know how to rotate crops and protect the soil. Overgrazing is a massive problem. Equals soil erosion...

[emilieguillon-equitation]

Wars and corruption have a big effect on food distribution. A lot of associations dig wells for these people but nobody repairs them. The money for the repairs is diverted elsewhere ☹️

[Cheers]

Tell poor people NOT to breed like rabbits then!

[weijingburr]

Meanwhile, there's people ordering their Rolls Royce with a stainless dashboard etched with a map of their own DNA, plated with gold. The rich and powerful people of the world should realize their wealth and power comes from the hands of others, there is no tree on which money grows, the riches of one come from the hands of another.

[michalkroupa]

How many children can you have ? 4, 5, 10 ? This is not possible for us in Europe or US, but normal in Africa and other countries. Then you need think about food guys. But I think now it's too late.

[shirleylangton]

The production of food has been given over to the rich and families who are interested in producing their own food can no longer afford the price of land. One thing that wasn't mentioned is deforestation. There would be less drought, regardless of climate change, if large tracts of land were not cleared of trees. Now, the topsoil is blown away and dried, making moist, rich productive soil a thing of the past. This is most apparent in Africa, and there isn't even shade for protection against the summer heat. There are few people in government who can empathize nor understand ordinary people. 😭

[andrec]

We need to thank world economic forum for the problems !

[donTeo]

As a farmer I can tell you we are not paid well. According to the commodities system it really does not matter if we actually receive a profit. Imagine bankrupting the people whom everybodies survival depends. Consider that logic.
Middle men become wealthy taking huge profits with no concern that the producer can actually continue working.
It would seem rational that all societies would most want to be concerned about the viability of it's farmers, rather then saying 'o well that's capitalism '
In which case you all starve and farmers can say ' o well that's capitalism'

[myyt]

Africa needs birth control. The birthdate in Somalia is 6 infants per adult female. That is obscene.

[bigloaf]

Overpopulation is causing food insecurity.
1920 2 billion people.
2020 8 billion people and growing

[pjapy]

Unfortunately, this is happening in Brazil too, Where we are now 60 million people in food insecurity, not only in Africa where the money you europeans make is at risk

[hoboryan]

The pandemic and Ukraine war is a scape goat; the rich are and always have been to blame.

[pesteanvstefan]

kenyas population in the 60s was 8 millions . now it is 55 milion . they aded 6 times the population in just 60 years. they aded 8 more millions every 10 years . . . how and where and what is the level of tehnology investment iq and capital nedded to actually sustain such and increase ? on which planet ? how can anybody think that 7fold your population is sustainable ? it took europe 1000 years to do what kenya did in 50 . in terms of population growth .

[michaelmallal]

We need to cut down on heating too for global warming. EU doesn't need more migrants either.

[jaredvaughan]

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.

[rajasekhare]

This is the result of investing in guns rather than on grains!

[npc]

Stop having babies when you can’t even feed yourselves.

[npc]

Western countries are so generous that we send them tons of food and money so they can have more kids. As a result, they now have the strength and the numbers to hike, swim, and build boats to become refugees in western countries so we can continue to give them tons of money and food in the form of welfare and now also housing. But that’s not all, many will commit crimes in their new homes so now we have to put them in prisons where we have to once again pay tons of money to house and feed them while they are incarcerated . If we really think about it, all of western countries problems with crime, poverty, inflation, and global warming due to over population are all self inflicted. We created all of our problems but are too stupid to realize it.