Posted on 06/27/2016 7:42:05 AM PDT by rktman
The US national security industry is planning for the impact of an unprecedented global food crisis lasting as long as a decade, according to reports by a government contractor.
The studies published by CNA Corporation in December 2015, unreported until now, describe a detailed simulation of a protracted global food crisis from 2020 to 2030.
The simulation, titled ‘Food Chain Reaction’, was a desktop gaming exercise involving the participation of 65 officials from the US, Europe, Africa, India, Brazil, and key multilateral and intergovernmental institutions.
The scenario for the ‘Food Chain Reaction’ simulation was created by experts brought in from the State Department, the World Bank, and agribusiness giant Cargill, along with independent specialists. CNA Corp’s Institute for Public Research, which ran the simulation, primarily provides scientific research services for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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“Lets see..... How can I make a billion dollars off of a “food crisis”?”
Start with 5 billion dollars.
Food crisis? Build 100 desalination plants along Africa’s coastline. Run pipes and infrastructure inland. Plant crops.
Problem solved. Why do people insist things like this are difficult.
bureaucrat = long pig
Just think! If it was only 394% everything would be fine!
Wasn’t there a Matt Bracken blog on something like this? I believe his premise was a food war stemming from systematic EBT failure (intentional or accidental), but the price spike would end the same way... with foodstuffs out of reach of hungry consumers
They’re talking about a 400% increase in global food prices, not the USes. So what would cause a 75% reduction in global food production?
Interesting. I recently read it was expected a Yellowstone eruption would affect global food production for... ten years.
Some folks in the Washington-New York scam club want to run up commodity prices again.
Farmers and oil drillers are just too productive to make commodity prices high for a long time.
Sorry, you’ll just have to settle for fleecing ordinary folks with overpriced insurance and real estate.
In the developed world, the only thing that can cause this is a supervolcano eruption, a meteor strike, or socialism. We have the transportation logistics that can reroute food to where it is needed, and our logistics will only get better.
“A dollar collapse will bring that here”
We will not lack for food and oil. We actually produce those things here.
The Democratic President’s henchwomen will levy domestic production taxes payable in food and oil, so lazy ‘crats won’t lack those either, but you’ll be paying about three-fifths of that 395% for handouts to the ‘crat base.
A dollar collapse will make Chinese stuff and foreign vacations even more expensive.
IOW: this crisis occurred in a video game
I’ve heard it said that 82.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
But which one of those sudden disappearances comes with a specific duration of 10 years?
What I’ve read of the solar quieting is it’s expected to last at least until 2035 at the earliest, 2050 more likely. Crop production could easily be shifted within a short time.
They are researching two specific criteria: “global” and “ten years”. IMO likely Yellowstone.
The biggest obstacle to food shortages is our endless over production.
That could easily go world-wide by simply adopting the American Model for Cheap Food for Consumers.
American food prices declined more than 30% from 1970 through 2009, as a percentage of the average household budget.
The reason was that the American Farmer grows mountains of food, so much so that we can burn enormous amounts of it to fuel our cars and heat our homes, and still have mountains left to export.
Then, after the export markets are satisfied, we are left with the annual problem of what to do with all the surplus.
I’ve got an idea -
Encourage the “growing movement” across the country of people growing some of their own food - from porch planters, roof tops, city lots and back yards to market gardens....
I.E. get back closer to how it was for thousands of years - even just 70 years ago in our country - when 86% of the people were rural - with gardens.
There’s a new-old movement afoot as people are educating themselves about what is in their food - and starting their own gardens and/or buying local/organic....
Leaving our food supply up to the gov’t is like climbing up on the stool and putting our neck in the noose for them to subjugate or kill off ... “Who controls the food, controls the people.” Despots rule of conquer - then get the guns
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Victory gardens. Yup.
My math professor would mark my answer wrong if I used too many significant digits.
The one great thing about people not understanding significant digits is that it allows people who understand both significant digits and the field to quickly discard a fair bit of garbage.
AKA Holodomor...a purposeful starvation of the Ukranian farmers by the communists as a means of conquering them. When millions die, they stop being able to complain. See Holodomor
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