Relation To Global Food Crisis

There are many ways where environmental issues throughout the world can be related to the global food crisis:
- Oil is largely used in the transportation of food, thus the skyrocketing oil prices has contributed A LOT to the worldwide increase in food prices
- Oil is also used in the production, i.e. in fertilizers, as well as in the manufacturing of food
- Climate change is a major factor, reducing land that's available for cultivation and generating more weather disasters that wipe out food crops, and the amount of land that could be cultivated with food is finite
- Primary types of fishes farmed (sustainably) for food have decreased significantly due to climate change
- Et cetera…



It's not just that demand is getting bigger, but there are limits on how much it's possible to increase supply. Thus, food prices WILL soar continuously.

In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say.

Food costs have shot upwards so quickly that even a consumer in a rich country who doesn't usually keep track of the price of bread will have noticed it. And anyone who counts the pennies has been feeling the pinch already, as global food prices have risen 83 percent over the last three years.

It puts the Western diet in question. Cutting down on inappropriate consumption of meat and dairy foods would be in everyone's interests. It's the least efficient kind of food production, and these are the foods that create health problems when people eat too much of them.

India and China's growth shows no sign of slowing, and the hunger for meat among their growing middle classes is a major factor in pushing grain prices up.

Now we’ve seen how the food crisis is intimately linked to energy factors as well as environmental issues... So, what happens if the world doesn't adapt, and food costs just keep on rising?

In the worst-case scenario, humanity will be struggling to cope with wars and deadly famines, new diseases, water shortages, and storms and droughts that wipe out crops. Oil will cost something like $200 a barrel, and there will probably be a global recession as food prices keep on rising.