The Global Food Crisis Shouldn’t Have Come As a Surprise. (2)
How to Finally Fix the Broken System for Alleviating Hunger.
The world’s agricultural and food systems face a perfect storm. Overlapping crises, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, wars in Ukraine and elsewhere, supply chain bottlenecks for both inputs like fertilizer and outputs like wheat, and natural disasters induced by climate change have together caused what the United Nations has called “the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation.” World leaders cannot afford to ignore this unfolding catastrophe: rapidly increasing food prices not only cause widespread human suffering but also threaten to destabilize the political and social order. Already, along with skyrocketing energy costs, surging food prices have helped bring about the collapse of the Sri Lankan government.
We would like to share the Foreign Affairs report, July 25, 2022.
(2) https://youtu.be/jGf5SIlc_FA
(1) https://youtu.be/jF_BKvnUk6s
