Looming World Food Crisis

Global weather crisis is creating problems with food supply too. A flood here, a drought there, some snow across somewhere else and suddenly you've created really horrific problems.We need to use less energy, before we're forced to.

What about the methane and the carbon dioxide produced when the by-products of corn decompose? Aren't they going to contribute more to Global Warming?Corn is cultivated for consumption, but for fuel, I suggest we take another way of obtaining fuel.http://environe.blogspot.com

Raising 50% food production by 2030 (U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders) but the issue is how? Present economic pattern of the globe only helps promoting urban economics. Major Asian countries which were producing and exporting food grain to the world now intend producing and supplying computer and electronic goods. Most countries do not pay attention to promote agricultural product through research to add on value thus become profitable. Consequence of urban economics is excessive urbanization. Urban related economic growth thrusts agricultural land conversion to cities and building to accommodate urban population and industries. Over 20% of farm lands of developing countries have been converted to cities and buildings for the past decades and Over 50% of farmlands of villages (close to cities) got merged with cities. Food shortage is as war on world, could be disastrous to collapse world economics. Food is first priority for each consumer, expensive food would prune consumption of other product’s and services. • World absolutely need to pay attention the importance of rural economics and emphasize on agriculture and add on value to it.• Present education pattern only facilitates urbanization to grow urban population. Change in education pattern so to improve student’s taste towards agriculture and its research that includes animal farming. • Agriculture need to be profitable for the farmers.• More allocation of fund and land to agricultural sector.• Tough international legislation to arrest speculative gambling on essential commodities.• Bring back the incentives to farmers to produce more without incurring losses.• World population will grow and land will be less for us so maximum endeavor to scientific research so can use most land and water available on earth that includes desert land and sea.• Main cause of food shortage is growth pattern of developing countries. So bio fuel alone is not responsible. The real culprits are shortage and speculation hoarding. However, growing crop for fuel in land for food is not justified scientists and research professionals can work on sourcing from sea, river, desert or unused land plants or other means.http://www.sadashivan.com/distressingfacts/id7.html

we grow more non food grade corn for bio and corn syrup, and less soy.People in Africa and Paupau grow the soy that we dont grow anymore and chop down the jungle to grow it.Less jungle, less rain clouds.Less rain clouds, less rain, more desertification.More desert, less crops, more starvation.

Canadian Government has legalized Hemp! We are ahead of the rest of the world, enlightened and about to produce fiber, fuel, oil and seed for food and fiber board, superior paper products and cloth to compete with cotton on world markets. Americans be advised: You cannot get "stoned" on Canadian Hemp – it has no hallucinogenic value, so don't eat your shirts!

This is a much larger issue than meets the eye. You leave out the fact that we GROSSLY overproduce food (namely corn) as a nation compared to our demand. Then this goes out to third-world countries as "food aid", which sounds quite beneficent, however 90% of all US food aid is not considered "emergency relief", and thereby is billed as a debt to the foreign governments. Basically, what results is an undermining of the economies of third-world countries by offering residents lower-priced, imported grain crops.The US cannot keep overproducing food and exporting it to poor nations under the guise of charity. If we're going to solve the global food crisis, it's not about simply ceasing ethanol production (and its environmentalpolitical benefits). Ethanol is not the enemy; the political motives that fuel US "food aid" are what we need to rid ourselves of. If every nation has the opportunity to produce its own food and sustain its people without relying on manipulative superpowers, then there will be no food crisis.