Posted on 05/23/2022 9:25:45 AM PDT by bitt
Te world only has 10 weeks worth of grain left, the lowest levels ever seen, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine is creating a "seismic" threat to global food supplies, Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker told the United Nations Security Council.
"[T]he Russia-Ukraine war did not start the food security crisis. It simply added fuel to a fire that was long burning. A crisis we detected tremors from long before the COVID 19 pandemic exposed the fragility of our supply chains," Menker told the United Nations. Her software company, Gro Intelligence, uses human and artificial intelligence to predict food security and climate change.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a similar warning on Saturday. His country accounts for nearly 10% of the world's corn supply and together, Russia and Ukraine provide up to 30% of the global grain supply.
"Russia has blocked almost all ports and all, so to speak, maritime opportunities to export food – our grain, barley, sunflower and more. A lot of things," Zelensky said, according to Fox News.
"Now it will create a food crisis if we do not unblock the routes for Ukraine, do not help the countries of Africa, Europe, Asia, which need these food products," he added.
Menker told the UN, "It is important to note that the lowest grain inventory levels the world has ever seen are now occurring while access to fertilizers is highly constrained, and drought in wheat growing regions around the world is the most extreme it’s been in over 20 years."
She predicted that if action is not taken to ensure global food security, the consequences can be dire for the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than $3.60 a day.
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Bad orange mans fault
“Now it will create a food crisis if we do not unblock the routes for Ukraine, do not help the countries of Africa, Europe, Asia, which need these food products,” he added.
My thought also.
If those Soviet ships are blockading grain export from Ukraine, time to nuke them.
Isn’t he busy with some kind of war with Russia or something..?
Bkmk
Let the free market deal with the problem. People will figure out how to make money from growing and selling food locally and then regionally.
So long as the deep state remains the state, it’s all good. Dead people only vote Democrat.
Like all of this isn’t being orchestrated?!! They, the NWO puke puppets, think by issuing warnings of what is coming will make them and their overlords appear innocent? Not hardly!!
We can feed ourselves, but Brandon will likely not allow us to. I predict that we will starve while our food will be sent elsewhere. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that our government will act in our best interests.
Balderdash.
“The entire aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and, hence, clamorous to be led by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
Grain shortage is (sadly) real.
Price of wheat has gone from $26 for 50 lbs two years ago to $79 today. I about fell over when I went to buy some recently.
Oat is similar.
Is everyone not panicking fast enough?
Make our grocery shelves empty faster by putting out fear.
No worries, shelves will be full right before election.
We need more local and regional systems. The global systems have failed. I drive by 1000s of head of beef cattle on my way to any grocery store but shop-n-save has beef from Brazil.
We have a garden. Hope we can find seeds next yr
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