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Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves
politico ^ | 3-22-22 | EDDY WAX

Posted on 03/27/2022 7:25:01 PM PDT by dynachrome

“We’re billions short," he said. "Failure to provide this year a few extra billion dollars means you’re going to have famine, destabilization and mass migration.”

Beasley's intervention will sharpen minds as EU governments draw up plans to address the food crisis resulting from the war, with a proposal expected as early as Wednesday.

Russia and Ukraine are among the world’s biggest producers and exporters of grain. The disruption caused by the war has a direct impact on countries that rely on these supplies in the Middle East and Africa.

Half of Africa's wheat imports come from Ukraine and Russia, which is also a major fertilizer exporter. As for Ukraine, its exports have ground to a halt and its capacity to keep growing food this year is hanging by a thread. The crunch point will come in the fall, Beasley said, when the full impact of the war’s disruption is likely to be felt. “If you think we’ve got hell on earth now, you just get ready,” Beasley warned. "If we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa’s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe."

The economic conditions facing these parts of the world are now worse than they were in the run-up to the Arab Spring, he said. And it's not just the populations of Middle Eastern and North African countries who will feel the squeeze.

The WFP is already feeding millions of people further south in Sahel countries like Niger and Burkina Faso, where problems will worsen if global food prices stay sky high. “I’ve been warning our developed nations for several years now that the Sahel is going to collapse if we’re not careful,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; agriculture; chat; chatforum; feedingsubsahara; fertilityproject; food; foodshortages; liar; massmigration; notnews; politico; pollutico; populationexpansion; un; unitednations; untiednations
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly.


61 posted on 03/27/2022 9:03:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: GeorgianaCavendish
Part of me also wonders if this is just a scam for world leaders to take control of the food supply and remake it in the image of the green new deal/great reset .

I have no doubt.

One thing I have come to realize is that none of these things is taking the NWO globalists by surprise.

It all planned and implemented and reveals a depth of evil that is impossible to fathom.

62 posted on 03/27/2022 9:06:49 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Equine1952

Yeah. The spraying it with weed killer.


63 posted on 03/27/2022 9:07:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: dynachrome

Communists love starving people. Ukraine is their excuse.


64 posted on 03/27/2022 9:14:05 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: The Antiyuppie
Farming on the scale we've become accustomed to depends upon a fairly fragile logistical chain. Disrupt any one element and you've got trouble. Disrupt multiple elements and you've got a world altering catastrophe.

This article lays it out https://zububrothers.com/2022/03/27/farmers-on-the-brink-zerohedge/

The money quote:

We believe we are at the onset of a global famine of historic proportions. In a staggering defiance of logic, many US politicians are still attacking the lifeblood of our own energy production infrastructure, looking to score political points against “the other team,” blaming price-taking producers of global commodities for gouging, threatening producers of energy with windfall profits taxes, resisting calls to remove bureaucratic hurdles to new production, and refusing to open an introductory physics textbook to help guide them through the suite of policy choices that require true leadership to get right. They remain stuck in an endless loop of platitudes, blamestorming, corruption, and ignorance.

Prepare accordingly.

65 posted on 03/27/2022 10:14:42 PM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: allendale

I thank God every day for giving me the insight to make a lifestyle choice 10 years ago. Me and the wife retired from corporate America and decided to leave the very Big city and buy a place in the middle of Texas. We now raise our own Angus beef, have ponds with catfish and bass, have chickens that produce 4-5 dozen eggs a day, have a large garden every year where we grow and can our own vegetables for the entire year. Make our own bread and jellys. We also have the ability to defend our home and property if it comes to that. We are blessed.


66 posted on 03/27/2022 10:31:56 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (John 14:6 My name is registered in Heaven because I am justified by Jesus Christ. You can be also.)
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To: butlerweave

Are they lying or are they bragging?


67 posted on 03/27/2022 10:46:56 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (-The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: dynachrome

sounds like American, Canadian and Messican farmers are going to have a windfall year


68 posted on 03/28/2022 12:50:03 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like a great time to double down on ethanol in our gasoline.


69 posted on 03/28/2022 1:25:08 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: allendale

Maybe we could start by getting rid of burning corn in cars!
That would leave a lot of food for the people!


70 posted on 03/28/2022 2:43:17 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: dynachrome

2nd amendment ping. Invasion by forced famine is still an invasion.


71 posted on 03/28/2022 3:31:54 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Trillian
Communists love starving people. Ukraine is their excuse.

Ukraine is their role model, historically speaking.

72 posted on 03/28/2022 3:45:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: McGavin999

We can plant and harvest tons more food. The problem is the countries that need it want it for free. Also a slight problem with lack of fertilizer.


73 posted on 03/28/2022 4:05:42 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

You are blessed.


74 posted on 03/28/2022 4:09:39 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: oldasrocks

U.S. farm groups urge sowing on protected land as war cuts off Ukraine supply

Farm groups are urging the U.S. Agriculture Department to allow farmers the ability to plant on acres set aside for conservation, to help fill the absence of Ukrainian corn, wheat and sunflower oil amid Russia’s invasion of the country.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-farm-groups-urge-sowing-protected-land-war-cuts-off-ukraine-supply-2022-03-23/


75 posted on 03/28/2022 4:14:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Noumenon

U.S. farm groups urge sowing on protected land as war cuts off Ukraine supply

Farm groups are urging the U.S. Agriculture Department to allow farmers the ability to plant on acres set aside for conservation, to help fill the absence of Ukrainian corn, wheat and sunflower oil amid Russia’s invasion of the country.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-farm-groups-urge-sowing-protected-land-war-cuts-off-ukraine-supply-2022-03-23/


76 posted on 03/28/2022 4:15:22 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: BiglyCommentary

We keep sending them food and they keep producing more excess babies.

Maybe the answer is to fund Planned Parenthood over there.


77 posted on 03/28/2022 4:16:22 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: GeorgianaCavendish

Bill Gates has been buying up massive parcels of farm land. I am sure he will donate anything grown on it and dare not “profiteer” like those evil corporations we keep hearing about.


78 posted on 03/28/2022 4:30:03 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: oldasrocks
We keep sending them food and they keep producing more excess babies.

That's exactly what happened here for the past 60 years ...

now they run almost every city in the country ...
79 posted on 03/28/2022 4:33:48 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: dynachrome
"If we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa’s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe."

So is that what this is all about? More "refugees"?

80 posted on 03/28/2022 5:49:17 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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