China will find themselves in a real bind regarding food - their storage facilities are full of rotten and damaged grains, much of which has been stolen or redistributed. Provincial government managers do not dare tell the truth, or they lose their cushy jobs.
The floods and droughts in China, combined with locusts and swine flu have decimated food supply chains. Biblical proportions for their shortages possibly, can’t say as though I actually give a damn.
Play communist games, win fake prizes!!
Since the green revolution, food shortages only occur in autarkies that either lack the foreign exchange to import food (North Korea pretty much since its creation) or disdain either imports or food aid for ideological reasons (North Korea, Cambodia under Pol Pot and China under Mao). Since China is currently a capitalist country (albeit run by dictators) that produces a large trade surplus (i.e. has plenty of foreign exchange), it has no issues with simply importing food. In the worst case, it's unlikely that it would reject food aid.
“.. the UN World Food Program is projecting that the number of people facing “severe food insecurity” in Latin American and Caribbean nations
will rise by a whopping 270 percent in the months ahead."
“Grocery stores across the United States are stocking up on products to avoid shortages during a second wave of coronavirus.
Household products — including paper towels and Clorox wipes — have been difficult to find at times during the pandemic,
and if grocery stores aren’t stocked up and prepared for second wave this winter, runs on products and shortages could happen again. “
“We have entered a time when global food supplies are going to become increasingly stressed, and it is going to be absolutely critical to keep U.S. food production at the highest levels possible.
Smaller farms, meanwhile, had average payments of around $300.
The figures did not take into account other struggling farmers who are ineligible for assistance.
Reading those numbers greatly frustrated me, because family farms have always been so critical to our success as a nation.
”U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high last year, and they are on pace to go even higher this year. “ (Emphasis mine).
(Post #37) Datura : “ China will find themselves in a real bind regarding food - their storage facilities are full of rotten and damaged grains, much of which has been stolen or redistributed.
Provincial government managers do not dare tell the truth, or they lose their cushy jobs.
The floods and droughts in China, combined with locusts and swine flu have decimated food supply chains.
Read the various comments contained in this ongoing posting.
There is an alleged shortage of aluminum cans, supposedly because many people, much more than usual, are cooking and eating at home instead of restaurants.
Is it real ? .. Or is it a manufacturing issue ?
Also, many grocery warehouses are stocking up now for a possible second wave of the Covid pandemic.
Are you prepared enough, even though you used supplies during the last Covid outbreak ? Have you re-supplied used items ?
OODA loop advised.