This is where Ukraine exported food in 2019.
The US is absolutely secure for food. If there is a global shortage it will be mostly African countries that feel it.
Posted on 05/03/2022 9:54:26 AM PDT by blam
A representative of the United Nations World Food Program warned on Sunday that Russia is blocking close to 4.5 million tons in grain exports from Ukraine, The Guardian reported.
Martin Frick told German news outlet dpa that the abrupt stoppage could initiate a global food crisis and that he is working to allow the supply to go forward.
“Foodstuffs have to reach those in Ukraine who are trapped and in need. But at the same time, there is the need to provide other parts of the world with foodstuffs they are expecting from Ukraine in order to alleviate a global food crisis,” Frick said.
“Right now, we must concern ourselves with the fact that there are some people who will starve, that there are countries which will be unable to afford grain for their people, and that this whole war situation could lead to a global hunger crisis,” he continued.
In April, the U.N. wrote that Ukraine and Russia combined have grown roughly 30% of global wheat exports and 20% of corn exports over the past three years.
“Driven by soaring wheat and coarse grain prices – largely as a result of the war in Ukraine – the FAO Cereal Price Index was 17.1 per cent higher in March than it was just a month earlier,” the organization said.
The group also connected a 23.2% increase in the price of vegetable oil, of which Ukraine is the largest exporter, to the ongoing invasion.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said in late March during a U.N. Security Council meeting that the Kremlin was preventing approximately 94 ships carrying food intended for the world market from leaving port, according to Anadolu Agency.
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This reset is going to hurt.
PRC (Politically Repressive Canada) CURRENTLY produces a vast amount of Cereal grains, primarily Saskatchewan. PRC also produces a vast amount of potash, which is used in fertilizer production. The Lieberals are also talking about getting rid of ammonia based fertilizers in Canada, to save Mother Earth.
True-dolt, with a ‘world shortage of grain, will provide grain to the world, while starving Canada and the US. All part of the WEF’s ‘Great reset’!
Tuck Frudeau!
Matthew 24
New International Version
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
24 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2 “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. 18 Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
22 “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.
26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
29 “Immediately after the distress of those days
“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’[b]
30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth[c] will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.[d] 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[e] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
The Day and Hour Unknown
36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Russian blockade doesn’t matter.
Ukraine farmers, by in large are not planting: government created fuel shortage.
Agriculture production prices went down because of rail situation, so production drop significantly; planting season over - production short fall apparent in August.
Russia should demand its seized assets back in exchange for lifting the blockade.
How much grain do we get from the Ukraine? Any?
This is where Ukraine exported food in 2019.
The US is absolutely secure for food. If there is a global shortage it will be mostly African countries that feel it.
4.5 million tons is only 0.17% of the worlds annual grain production. Any grain shortage is manufactured not by what’s going on in Ukraine.
Interesting. Thank you.
You know what else that shows?
Russia doesn’t even show up in the map. So Russia isn’t worried if the harvest gets ruined. Probably thinks this won’t come back to bite it. Except...
China, India, Turkey, Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Egypt are the biggest customers.
Call me a cynic but four out of the seven countries on that list are, shall we say, disinclined toward Western liberal pearl clutching. If I were a betting man I’d say there’ll be a hell of a fight if they can’t get a supply from elsewhere without paying way over the odds...
Who and what will they blame if this precipitates a global shortage of grain that results in China and India getting hit the hardest?
Ukraine, for holding out despite the harvested grain being blockaded by Russia?
Ukraine, for being unable to plough the fields that Russian troops have been laying mines in?
Ukraine, for losing fleets of tractors and combine harvesters that were transported by Russia into other territories only to find they’d been immobilised courtesy of bog-standard theft prevention technology?
Ukraine for having its grain stores on its farms blown up by Russia?
Or, just a thought, might they blame Russia? Bearing in mind, Rusdian farmers don’t just provide a significant amount of grain to the world; they also provide a free vehicle recovery and recycling service for abandoned Russian armor.
The WEF just pretends that Russia’s not acting as one of the arms of their strangling octopus.
Thats Ukrainian supply. They forgot the Russian supply and the future drop in production as a result of the fertilizer shortage.
And it is a 2019 graph. It is now 2022.
We will get to see many revolts this coming year. All caused by the lack of foodstuffs.
Sask harvest got hammered by drought last year. Youtube channel Mike Mitchell farms 40,000 acres. In some areas they they only harvested one bushel of lentils per acre.
“How much grain do we get from the Ukraine? Any?”
It does not matter a whit.
Grain, like oil is a worldwide commodity and traded on international markets.
Whatever a bushel costs in Somalia, it costs the same in Chicago.
So Price will allocate and ration it. In many countries governments will intervene to subsidize. And the US government will purchase $billions$ to ship overseas to poor countries everywhere...further driving up the price as demand will remain constant.
But you will pay full price.
Thereby the American consumer will subsidize the cost of food worldwide and a loaf of Wonder Bread will be $6m, a dozen eggs $7. Same for a gallon of milk.
Plant every square inch of your yard. And include calorie dense staples...beans...potatoes...etc.
Because the biscuits and tortillas won’t be cheap. And a basic chicken could be as high as $12.
See post #15.
Food will be available everywhere.
At a price.
I assumed the same thing about staple prizes being global, but I got to a different conclusion.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-consumer-expenditure-spent-on-food
The share of consumer expenditure spent on food is 6% in the US and 59% in Nigeria. It’s Nigerians, who are going to starve.
"At a price."
I agree.
US taxpayers will subsidise food for the rest of the world even as they yell "Death To America" in the streets
I saw this same stat a few years back and it was 9% and 88%.
How many will find their way to the Mexican/US border?
Frankly, many residents of the world would be better off just selling everything they have to buy a plane ticket to Mexico.
Life is steadily getting easier everywhere. Here is a graph for the US since 1950.
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