With 15.5 billion people facing acute food insecurity, what does the global food crisis mean?

The Global Food Crisis 2021 published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

According to the report, 100 million people around the world faced severe food insecurity last year. Faced with such a situation, many people do not know how to interpret it to be correct? What does this food crisis mean for the world? Let's take a look.

There are several reasons why hundreds of millions of people around the world are facing food insecurity, and there are several reasons for this:

One is the new crown pneumonia.

The epidemic is raging around the world, which has greatly affected the normal production of food in many places, especially in Africa and other regions. It is rumored that in 2020 there was a significant increase in the number of hungry people in the world, due to the impact of the new coronavirus. The second is the impact of locust plagues, which broke out in many countries around the world in 2020, such as Somalia and Tanzania.

Kenya and other countries, and later neighboring countries also experienced locust plagues, such as Pakistan, India, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Brazil and other countries. The locust plague had a far-reaching impact and reduced food production. Third, some extreme weather impacts, such as sea level rise, melting ice and glaciers, and extreme weather, will also have a certain impact on the safe production of food.

If food is the sky, what does it mean if there is a food crisis?

As we all know, everyone is inseparable from food for survival, and if the food supply does not meet our needs, it means that people's living environment may have reached a critical point.

At this time, if the food crisis triggers a series of consequences, I am afraid that it will lead to social unrest. After all, if there is no way to provide for hunger, then the number of people facing hunger in the world will increase, which is very detrimental to social security management. However, the majority of people facing global hunger are concentrated in Africa, particularly in East Africa.

Region. As far as our country is concerned, the impact is not very great.

What can we do in the face of a global food crisis?

Before the arrival of the global food crisis, China's current grain production capacity was still relatively sufficient, basically every year was a bumper harvest, and it could reach a state of self-sufficiency, so the general public did not need to worry too much. However, I personally think that there are some things that we can do as citizens, such as caring for food, being sure to save, not wasting when eating out, and trying to do the CD-ROM action. If you have land at home, try to grow as much food as possible and don't let it go to waste.

When each of us can solve the food problem on our own, I believe that there will not be so many people hungry in this world.

That's my answer to my question about what the global food crisis means. If you have any other opinions, please add them later in this article.

I think the global food crisis means that our daily food is becoming more and more scarce, and many people are unable to eat a full meal, which shows that we need to save food more in our daily life.

It shows that the current food production is still relatively low, and there is no way to meet the needs of all people, and then there is a serious problem of food security.

It means that the price of food in the world will rise immediately, and it will also mean that there will be a shortage of food in the world, and many people will go hungry.

Global rice** has risen continuously.

5 months is still ** "depression".

Under the continuous soaring international wheat and other countries, the pressure on international rice is increasing. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Rice** Index is now in its fifth consecutive month**.

At present, the increase in international rice is still much lower than that of other grains**. Thailand's 100% Grade B White Rice**, the main international benchmark, has now reached US dollar tonnes, and the increase has also reached this year. As of June 13, 2022, the international CBOT wheat, corn, and soybeans** were respectively **% compared with the beginning of the year, and it is obvious that the increase in rice is significantly weaker.

Regionally, the increase in Thai rice products was mainly between 16% and 18%.

Earlier, at the end of May, Thailand and Vietnam had negotiated an agreement to increase rice exports, with the goal of increasing rice**, increasing farmers' incomes and increasing bargaining power in the global market. Alongkorn Ponlaboot, adviser to Thailand's Minister of Agriculture and Cooperation, said that for more than 20 years, the global market for rice** has been at a low level of around US$300-400 per tonne, while production costs have persisted**.

The three main causes of acute food insecurity are:conflicts, COVID-19 pandemics and extreme weather, among others.

Conflict-related acute food insecurity is most evident in African countries. Two-thirds of the 100 million people facing acute food insecurity are in the African continent. Particularly in areas such as Burkina Faso, South Sudan and Yemen, nearly 10,000 people face "catastrophic" food insecurity, which means that people in the region are one step away from famine, and if the situation continues to be dire, they will not be able to avoid mass deaths and a total collapse of their livelihood systems.

Because of the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the economy of many countries is being seriously impacted, and at the same time, the food and agricultural production system and the global food chain system have also been unexpectedly affected. The pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the system, and if we do not adjust the structure in a timely and targeted manner, we will continue to face severe food insecurity in the future.

There is also food insecurity due to the effects of extreme weather, including shorter growth periods for crops due to rising global temperatures; drought-induced food stunting and seedling burning; lower grain harvests due to cold spells; The impact of extreme natural phenomena, including floods, fires and insect infestations, has created additional uncertainties about global food production and security.

Fortunately, however, our current food supply is largely self-sufficient. China has always been a big agricultural country, and its grain output and scientific and technological level are basically in a leading position. But at the same time, China's food waste is also more prominent, with about 17 million tons of food wasted every year.

Thinking of the difficult situation in other countries, we must be even more resolute in putting an end to waste.

This is because the environment is now more polluted, and the planting base is getting smaller and smaller, so the amount of food produced is getting smaller and smaller.

Because the food of many countries is not enough to supply their own countries, and the epidemic situation in some countries is more serious, and they can no longer export grain.

Because the environmental damage is very severe, many cultivated fields are unusable, resulting in food shortages.

The global food crisis is aware of further inflation, and no country can be immune to the current environment, and the inflation caused by the global food crisis will inevitably be transmitted to our country, and our country will also be relatively affected.

1. Food crisis:

In fact, the impact of the new crown epidemic in the past two years is ostensibly just that we are fighting against the virus. But in fact, the global economy has also been hit hard, the current global food ** has been continuous for two consecutive years**, recently according to the statistics of relevant departments there will be hundreds of millions of people in the world, will face people will face heavy insecurity. This means that people around the world are facing an unprecedented food crisis, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a survey report that shows that hundreds of millions of people will face acute food insecurity, which will be the highest in five years.

In the past year, our grain has been 11 months in a row, and the corn has even been compared to last year.

2. The impact of the food crisis:

So what kind of impact will food ** cause? First of all, due to the **** of corn, the expected damage of rice has continued to be sluggish, and the international rice has continued to be damaged since April, so that some countries in Southeast Asia have suffered losses. If we look at normal logic, the cause of food prices** should be crop failure, but in fact, the global cereal production value in 2020 was as high as 100 million tons, an increase from last year's year.

This has a very strange phenomenon, the food is completely enough to eat, but **but it continues**, which is actually the operation of capital.

3. The impact of the food crisis on our country:

So what does the food crisis mean? In this era of the global village, no country can stand alone, although our country has a large amount of grain reserves, and our country's grain production is very abundant, enough for the practicality of our population. However, the global food ** must cause inflation, and this inflation will be introduced into our country, and I believe that it will cause a certain amount of impact on our country.

However, my country has been prepared for a long time, and my country has had a bumper grain harvest for 17 consecutive years, with an overall reserve of more than one trillion yuan.

The food crisis means that the most basic food and clothing for people's survival has become the biggest problem, and once a food crisis occurs, it will also lead to economic expansion, and people's lives will definitely add a lot of difficulties.

Personally, I feel that the global food crisis means that we are likely to face a situation of hunger, so I think we must cherish food.

This year is a year of many disasters, if food becomes insecure, it will lead to inflation, food ** skyrocketing, money can not buy food, etc., and will make the gap between the rich and the poor worse.

It means that people in many areas do not have enough to eat, and in this case there will definitely be unrest.

This means that humanity is about to face a great catastrophe. It is possible that humanity will not survive. It is a very serious impact on all mankind.

Whether the food crisis is a superficial shortage of food or a real lack of food, in the wave of global economic cooperation, no country can be immune, and food will inevitably lead to inflation, and it will inevitably be transmitted to the country, especially for some food varieties that rely on imports, such as corn, soybeans, etc. Last year's corn and soybeans were somewhat affected by global food prices, although they were recovered.

But in fact, these are only superficial phenomena, if we carefully analyze it is not difficult to find that there are actually two types of food crises, one is the crisis caused by the real shortage of food, and the other is the crisis caused by food prices. The real crises caused by food shortages are mainly concentrated in Africa, South Asia and Central America, and most countries are caused by food crises.

In view of the global food shortage environment, is China's ration safe? Will there be a "food shortage" in our country? We don't have to worry about rations, we have a strong food self-sufficiency in terms of rations.

First, China's grain production has been bumper for 17 consecutive years, and at the same time, the total grain output has remained above one trillion catties for six consecutive years.

Recently, a news that hundreds of millions of people around the world are facing severe food insecurity has attracted the attention of many netizens. The so-called food insecurity is the problem of food shortage as we understand it, and people in many areas are living without enough to eat. So what is the reason for this?

What kind of impact will the lack of food bring? Let me give you a brief analysis.

First of all, let's talk about what causes the shortage of food. In the relevant news, we can learn that there are three reasons for the shortage of food. Conflicts, economic shocks, and extreme weather.

Conflict refers to the fact that many areas are still trapped in an atmosphere of war, when people simply do not have the energy to grow food and do not have the opportunity to complete it. And the economic shock, like the impact of the pandemic on the whole world, will inevitably affect the normal planting season for most people.

Finally, extreme weather is a challenge that nature brings to human beingsRain, snow, hail, lightning, or locust plagues, in bad weather, the grain production that can be harvested in areas that already depend on the weather for food will be greatly reduced.

Over the past year, the country also seems to be facing one or two of the three reasons. There are economic conflicts, there are war conflicts, and of course, there are bad extreme weather.

So what kind of impact will the serious shortage of food have on us? I think different people will come up with the same answer when faced with the same question.

The production of food has been greatly reduced, and the serious shortage of food will make more people hungry in the world, to illustrate the seriousness of the situation by taking the most extreme example: the country has also experienced a special period of three years, during that period, the road is full of people who are dying of hunger, and a handful of noodles poured boiling water can even save a person.

If we don't want to go back to that era, we have to be ready now.