![]() As we will learn on Thursday’s show, there’s more. So we have not one, not two, but three factors negatively affecting our food supply. That decrease in yield is in addition to the other factors that are already putting pressure on food supply. On today’s show we talked about how energy markets are affecting the supply of fertilizer and how fertilizer use is down 5% so far this year which is expected to have an immediate 2% decrease in global food yields. ![]() If you like Dijon mustard, don’t try to order it in France. If you like Chicken, then don’t try to order it in a restaurant in Singapore. We are already experiencing acute shortages all over the world. A case in point is Malaysia which has halted its chicken exports in an effort to safeguard its domestic supply, which leaves people in Singapore struggling to find chicken as authorities suggest the public opt for frozen poultry alternatives.Įmail: and every day this week we are looking at some aspect of food security and the major shifts that are putting enormous strain on our global food supply. Other countries have very little in the way of domestic production of certain foods and rely almost entirely on imports for their daily food. Some countries produce far more than they need domestically to serve their population. Today we already have about 20% of the world’s food supply under some kind of export restriction. It’s a phenomenon that has historical precedence. The last time we saw food nationalism on a large scale was in the 1970’s. We start to see the rise of food nationalism. On today’s show we are looking at what happens when there are food shortages. Today and every day this week we are looking at some aspect of food security and the major shifts that are putting enormous strain on our global food supply. Less than a year later, the country is left in an economic and supply shortage crisis as a result. His goal was an ambitious one: to transform Sri Lanka into the first nation with 100-percent organic agriculture. The shift started in Spring of 2021 when Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa put a ban on agrochemicals. I personally buy organically grown fruits and vegetables whenever I can. ![]() We are looking specifically at Sri Lanka and the major impact it had on their national economy.ĭon’t get me wrong. On today’s show we are looking what happens when you shift your food production from using synthetic fertilizer to organic. On Thursday’s show we talked about at what happens when there are food shortages. On Wednesday’s show we talked about how energy markets are effecting the supply of fertilizer and how fertilizer use is down 5% so far this year which is expected to have an immediate 2% decrease in food yields. On Tuesday’s show we talk about how more and more farm land is being diverted from food production to growing for bio-fuels like Ethanol and biodiesel. On Monday’s show we talked about how dietary preferences have increased the demand for grain on a global basis as more and more people shift from plant based diets to consuming more animal protein.
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