Posted on 06/20/2022 10:19:01 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Food insecurity is rising globally because of the war in Ukraine, according to experts, with Africa expected to be hit the hardest. The world’s superpowers, China and the U.S., say they are trying to mitigate the fallout but at the same time are accusing each other of exacerbating the crisis.
A state newspaper, The China Daily, placed blame for the situation partially on Washington, saying: “Food prices have reached an all-time high, as Russian and Ukrainian grain exports are hindered by port disruptions and Western sanctions.”
The U.S., for its part, has accused China of hoarding, after President Xi Jinping said earlier this year that food security in China was a primary concern and urged farmers to scale up production to ensure the world’s most populous country was self-sufficient.
Asked by VOA if the Asian giant couldn’t help combat food insecurity caused by the Ukraine conflict, U.S. Ambassador Jim O’Brien, head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination, replied, “We would love to see China act like the large power it is in helping to address the problem in the global food market.”
“We are concerned that China is building up its domestic stocks and continuing to purchase grain on the global market at a time when we would love to see it be able to help those who are in need,” he added.
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Africa is so dependent on free food from the UN and various other charities etc. it’s going to truly feel the crunch. Likely more famines ahead for some parts.
I don’t recall any time throughout my life Africa wasn’t in some form of Famine.
Academically, this has always been a topic of discussion falling under Resource Wars theory/discussions.
If I recall correctly, the big story back in the 80s, was famine in Ethiopia.
I can recall as a little girl seeing kids in famine areas on TV.
Looks as if Africa has been taking Sam Kinison’s advice and moving to where the food is, to Europe mostly.
😃 I was a Msgt by then, just returned from Germany.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration damends that even more grain be redirected from the food supply to be used to dilute our gasoline and make our vehicles run less efficiently.
Rhodesia used to be the breadbasket of Africa before it was renamed Zimbabwe and became a Russian client state and ally of Saddam Hussein.
When you were a little one that was most likely Ethiopia you saw in famine. Ethiopia was more than capable of producing enough food to feed its people, and did so, but when the Soviets installed a communist dictatorship there, the majority of the country’s crops were exported to Russia, leaving the Ethiopian people with precious little. Collective farming in the USSR was inefficient and the USSR had to look elsewhere for food.
Africa, or at least many of the coastal countries which depend on the sea, have been raped by China. China sent huge fishing fleets to bottom trawl the fishing beds off of Sierra Leone and took the entire haul back to China, not even giving a small percentage to Sierra Leone as many other countries do.
They have ruined the fishing there for decades and people have been feeling the hit of this for several years now. The Chinese do not care how many other people starve as long as they can get fish to ship back to China.
. "The food that we bought just didn't last and we didn't have money to get more." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
98 percent reported that the food they bought just did not last and they did not have money to get more, which refers to whether 5.6% of households ever faced this during the past year, yet how just how long does "did not last food" cover, and how much of the food is in mind? Any family can claim that the milk, eggs, bread and other perishables that cost maybe $30 got used up, and over the course of 12 months it is not hard to find a time when you did not have money for shopping.
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