Posted on 03/26/2022 11:07:39 AM PDT by blam
The Russian war in Ukraine has had immediate repercussions for global food markets given the countries’ role as major exporters of essential agricultural products, such as wheat, sunflower oil, barley and corn, while also affecting perishable foods like fruits and vegetables.
As shown in FAO data, the price of basic food products has surged since the invasion of Ukraine after already having followed an upward trend since 2020 over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Infographic: The Link Between Soaring Food Prices and Political Instability | Statista
As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, in the past, similar surges in the price of food have led to unrest, mostly in developing countries, and even coincided with the Arab Spring in 2011, when populations in North Africa and the Middle East cornered by oppressive regimes and feeling the additional squeeze on their livelihoods due to high prices rose up and toppled several regional regimes.
The current level of food prices is even surpassing the peaks observed in 2011 and 2008, when food and other prices rose dramatically, causing unrest in several African countries as well as in Bangladesh, Haiti, Indonesia and Yemen. The onset of the global financial crisis put an end to the price surge that year.
In the current situation, Human Rights Watch has warned that food crisis could hit North Africa and the Middle East again, as several countries in the region are major importers of Russian or Ukrainian food products. According to Cornell University economics professor Chris Barrett, the potential for unrest is again heightened. At the beginning of March, protests over food prices took place in Iraq.
There are so many Demmocrats living on the government teat that only conservatives might complain. Once identified, they can be eliminated to leave a bit more food for the ignorant masses that remain for a little while. Then, it will run out and they will die of starvation because they can not produce much of anything except illegitimate children.
There are so many Democrats living on the government teat that only conservatives might complain. Once identified, they can be eliminated to leave a bit more food for the ignorant masses that remain for a little while. Then, it will run out and they will die of starvation because they can not produce much of anything except illegitimate children.
And I'm sure that toppling the government immediately opened the flood gates on low-cost food supplies...
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And yet there are still some who think things will return to ‘normal’ - while politicians keep them occupied with nonsense.
I foresee the new rise of World Communism as people starve and start to take out their rage on the upper classes. Not the fake Communism we have in Xi’s China but stark Stalinist/Maoist Communist of Pol Pot and Che. The first victim will be Mexico as starving masses turn on Drug Lords. Then will come massive wars in Africa with the rise of a “Black Napoleon” building a Black Empire. China will break to pieces and The USA break into three warring nations. All dreams of Greatness Going in a nuclear flash. Thanks Biden—you will be one of the first to go. So too Putin and Macron. The 21st Century will look more like the 18th
People in that part of the world are especially bad at thinking things through.
Between soaring prices for fuel and food, people I know in the UK said food banks are having tons of requests for foods that don’t have to be heated or cooked.
Funny about Mexico which has vast agricultural and oil resources. Word on the streets here in Texas is they are looking to become the dominant power in North America as Canada, and the US are going down the tubes.
duh, well they ARE the third North American country and I guess would be the next choice...
I recall reading in the last year that people get violent when food prices rise to around 30% of income.
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