Global food prices serve as a critical barometer for crises in poorer regions. When food costs skyrocket, the likelihood of revolutionary movements, coups, and local conflicts rises significantly. Ensuring the global population's access to food by expanding supply, leveraging technological advancements, and minimizing the adverse effects of governmental regulations—like those currently seen with the WEF's policies—is imperative. Effective food distribution aligns with decentralized resource management principles rather than centralized control by officials pushing green ideologies that may cause more harm than good.
The FAO Food Price Index recorded a slight dip to 120.8 in July 2024, down from 121 in June. Lower cereal prices balanced out higher costs for vegetable oil, meat, and sugar, with dairy prices remaining steady.
I had never heard of such an index. Nice chart! I did some research and found the original data source.
it is indeed an interesting chart for those who want to anticipate geopolitical crises, especially when you think of the Arab Spring which clearly took place in the shadow of food price inflation
I don't quite understand how this index can be a tool for anticipating conflicts. Was it possible to anticipate the war in Ukraine? Or was the rise in grain prices was consequence?
https://m.stacker.news/42986
I don't think this was a predictor for the Ukraine invasion, but the rise in grain prices had begun prior to that.
The war in Ukraine exacerbated a trend that started because of poor EU green energy planning. A colleague of mine, who also happens to be a farmer, was talking about this before the war.
Basically, the EU badly overestimated how much renewable energy capacity they were going to have, which led to a large share of global natural gas being diverted to European energy demand. The alternative use for that natural gas was fertilizer production. Fertilizer prices skyrocketed, but there still wasn't enough to fertilize all the crop land. That led to a price spike that most people are attributing to the war, but was coming either way.
no, it is about anticipating conflicts in the poor regions of the third world, which can then also develop into proxy wars of western states. like the recent Arab Spring
I think I understand. With the rise in the price of food and especially cereals, the poorer regions will suffer more and this could lead to conflicts. Is that right?
In these states there is no social system as we know it, which means that the small upper class, which usually keeps power in check with the military, immediately begins to waver when the need is so great that parts of the military change sides because they themselves are affected.
In these states there is no social system as we know it, which means that the small upper class, which usually keeps power in check with the military, immediately begins to waver when the need is so great that parts of the military change sides because they themselves are affected.
Retail inflation trend in India
https://m.stacker.news/43004
I was hoping this news meant you guys were getting some relief, but it looks like not.
Most of the third world was food self sufficient before the French CFA and IMF resource extraction debt slavery schemes…
Very good point. It is all the more interesting to observe how the French in particular are gradually being thrown out of their old colonies in Africa.
You should hear all the grumbling happening in the USA. Even though we are known to waste lots of food.
Not every revolution can claim food scarcity as one of the reasons, but it is definitely one of the major causes of unrest, and combined with other things it can easily become the tipping point for revolution.
This is being bad food is more important than any thing. Looks like world need to focus on food