Conflict and Climate Are Driving Food Prices Higher
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how conflict and climate change are combining to impede navigation across the globe. That same combination is also pushing food supply down and prices up worldwide.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: The writer explains: "The worst harvest since 1984 and a spike in livestock deaths have left many farmers without the cash needed to sow their fields for the coming year." Contemplate that for a moment.
- Fact 2: (For context, Russia is the second largest producer of oil in the world after the United States, and Russia routinely exports large amounts of oil and refined products such as diesel.) In the southwestern United States, long-term drought is drying up both the Colorado River, upon which 40 million people, including many farmers and ranchers, depend for water, and the Rio Grande, which is a crucial contributor of water for agriculture and public water systems for much of its 1,900-mile length from southwestern Colorado through New Mexico and then along the border of Texas and Mexico.
- Fact 3: Department of Agriculture, as of August 26, drought is affecting large areas of U.S.
- Fact 4: cropland for key crops including barley (80 percent), durum wheat (62 percent), rice (61 percent), spring wheat (80 percent), sugarbeets (75 percent), sunflowers (80 percent), and winter wheat (56 percent).
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how conflict and climate change are combining to impede navigation across the globe. That same combination is also pushing food supply down and prices up worldwide.
Climate change is no longer coming; it's here, and we're mixing it with our human folly in war in ways that make matters worse. A single headline can only tell a fragment of the story. For example, "Britain faces food shortages within months, warn farmers," one article blares.
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