Finanz.dk – Oct 9, 2020
Food prices continue rising during the coronavirus pandemic, jeopardizing food security for tens of millions worldwide.
On Thursday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said world food prices rose for the fourth consecutive month in September, led by surging prices for cereals and vegetable oils, reported Reuters.
FAO’s food price index, which tracks the international prices of the top traded food commodities (cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat, and sugar), averaged 97.9 in September versus a downwardly revised 95.9 in August.
FAO’s cereal price index jumped 5.1% in September and is 13.6% above its value one year earlier.
“Higher wheat price quotations led the increase, spurred by brisk trade activity amid concerns over production prospects in the southern hemisphere as well as dry conditions affecting winter wheat sowings around Europe,” FAO said.
Vegetable oil price soared 6% in September, over August prices, due to rising palm, sunflower seeds, and soy oil prices, hitting 8-month highs.
Dairy prices barely budged over the month, with moderate price increases for butter, cheese, and skim milk powder, offset by a decline in whole milk powder.
Sugar prices declined 2.6% over the month, mainly because of a global glut expected to persist through the 2021 season.
Meat prices slipped .9% on the month and were +9.4% year-on-year, with prices for pork slumping due to China’s ban on pork imports from Germany after several cases of African swine fever were recently found.
As outlined by The World Bank in September, rising food costs because of the virus pandemic have significant impacts on vulnerable households, many of which are being crushed into poverty and hunger.
“As the coronavirus crisis unfolds, disruptions in domestic food supply chains, other shocks affecting food production, and loss of incomes and remittances are creating strong tensions and food security risks in many countries,” The World Bank said.
In August, UN World Food Program (WFP) Director David Beasley warned that $5 billion in emergency funds are needed within six months to avert a global famine.
UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres recently said the world is experiencing one of the worst food crises in five decades. The virus-related downturn is driving wealth inequality to extremes and pushing millions of people into extreme poverty.
Here are the highest at-risk areas for a food crisis breakout:
Food insecurity hotspots. Click to enlarge
Food insecurity risks, produced by soaring prices and disrupted supply chains because of the virus pandemic, are not limited to the US. A top food bank in the country recently warned of a nationwide “meal shortage” in the next 12 months.
And throughout history, food price volatility and disruptions have often resulted in social unrest. An unintended consequence of the global downturn could be a continuation of the social unrest, seen across the world.
Americans ate three-hundred years worth of food in a century.
Hunger sucks. But there’s a simple solution – if you don’t have the money, means, or resources to properly care for your children, especially providing proper nutrition, then don’t f*cking have children until you’re more stable. Looking at that map, I’m tired of seeing many of the same “food insecurity hotspots” over and over, where people are clearly too stupid and wildly irresponsible to figure out that bringing a child into abject poverty is grossly negligent bordering on evil. Teach them to farm, but stop distributing food to those wretched parasites and start distributing contraceptives.
And Lewis Jones obese kid’s did that in a day in McDoinald’s!! You RACIST PRCK
Five billion dollars is small change to some people. Will they cough up? Well they might lend it, at interest of course. That way it will happen again and they can keep on getting more wealthy, exponentially, for ever.
All “PLANNED” – another totally manufactured crisis by the same FEW to usher in more controls which as planned are to TAKE OVER AND PROPERLY MANAGE THE LANDS OF THE WORLD, which will involved the continued removal of people from the farm lands, with more centralized multinational corporate and state ownership of our food supplies to make us completely DEPENDENT on them, THE FEW. Once we are in their AI grids and mostly crowded into urban areas, and mostly become USELESS EATERS, the bulk of us will simply be EXTERMINATED. their control plans from the Covid PLANDEMCIC are to continue and they have already used that FAKE PRETEXT to shut down food growers and food supplies in various places around the world. There is no shortage of food in the world. There is enough abundance and knowhow to feed more than double the world’s population in we wanted to or had to. It is all BS from the FEW who consider us, THE PEOPLE, to be THEIR ENEMIES.
Quote:Global Food Prices Rise As Famine Threat Emerges ?
Hmm.. The Russian Moujicks during Holodomor were totally disarmed !
The American Moujicks are armed with Colt AR 15 & so called assault rifles mostly ..
It is a different ball game, the politruk komissars better watch what they want to do ?
MORE HISTORIC PLANNING FOR THE RESETS
If anyone is free and truthful enough to research and understand the evidence that the Covid pandemic was planned as a pretext to usher in the also-planned major Resets of the international banking cartel and its corporate, government and media minions, then with the planned resulting “lockstep” economic shutdowns and clearly-foreseeable, adverse economic consequences, they ought to be able to see more clearly the fingerprints of the same cartel in a steady nurturing over the past 25 years of the gigantic debt bubble, which their leading economists say is crippling our economy along with the severe pandemic economic interventions.
It is clear that the Covid financial privations not only require the fiat-creating and further debt-rigging interventions by the central banking cartel, but that the engineered privations and control measures are also directly facilitating all of the NWO UN Resets backed by the banking cartel, and especially the key-ones regarding the technocratic centralization and more control over finances into their hands. That being the case, if one wanted to argue that the debt bubble and economic crash were not planned by the same sources, one would have to show the cartel had planned only to rely on the economic fallout from their planned Covid pandemic to launch before their economically-dependent hostages all of the UN Agendas, including their key-financial ones – which would be absolutely impossible and absurd. With just the economic fallout for the Covid scam, there would not have been enough of an economic crisis, fear, and panic to pull off any of UN and cartel Resets. The last thing the cartel would have wanted for their 2020 pandemic and Resets is a flourishing Western economy with balanced foreign debt obligations, and our nations having any debt bubble under control. In the temporal context, their planning for the pandemic started before 2010 and their planning for the imposition of Agenda 21 began before 1992 and as early as 1987, yet to pull everything off they had to create an economic crisis of major proportions in the world economy, obviously so that they could come to the rescue with their QE trillions in fiat to make us totally dependent and subservient to them in launching their NWO Reset controls.
Lynn Forester De Rothschild made a speech approx 12 years ago when she said quote ” they would be going into food production and control”
At the time that word “control” rang alarm bells and i knew what this meant and it ties in with Bilderberg meetings on population control
wait fr it our government will starve us