Wednesday, April 3, 2013

What will you do when there is a food shortage?!?

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and other countries this year have eroded reserves to their lowest level since 1974. The US, which has experienced record heatwaves and droughts in 2012, now holds in reserve a historically low 6.5% of the maize that it expects to consume in the next year, says the UN.

"We've not been producing as much as we are consuming. That is why stocks are being run down. Supplies are now very tight across the world and reserves are at a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year," said Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). With food consumption exceeding the amount grown for six of the past 11 years, countries have run down reserves from an average of 107 days of consumption 10 years ago to under 74 days recently.

Prices of main food crops such as wheat and maize are now close to those that sparked riots in 25 countries in 2008. FAO figures released this week suggest that 870 million people are malnourished and the food crisis is growing in the Middle East and Africa. Wheat production this year is expected to be 5.2% below 2011, with yields of most other crops, except rice, also falling, says the UN.

The figures come as one of the world's leading environmentalists issued a warning that the global food supply system could collapse at any point, leaving hundreds of millions more people hungry, sparking widespread riots and bringing down governments. In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.

Now knowing this and like me getting worryed about the fact famine can happen any moment, thoughts race through your head. What will I do for food? How will me and my family survive with little to no food. What can I do when this happens. Don't worry cause there is still time to plan and ways to prevent this from happing if u take the steps that I did to get food stocked and saved. Ways to make your own food and have food all year around. I dident have any idea what to do about this till I read this excellent guide. That showed me how to survive The Food Crisis

This book will give you all u need to know about stocking, growing and preventing loss of food so u can survive the food crisis that is happing around the world. Don't let your family and friends be stuck when this happens, You will regret it. I knew nothing about growing food and now in my back yard there is everything from green beans to carrots and squash I grew my self. I also have more then 300 canned fruits and vegetables stocked in my basement. Along with 532 gallons of clean drinking water that can last us months if anything would happen. I'm doing this to help my fellow people cause I belive that we are all family. Don't wait till its to late, Get the knowledge u need from this book( The Food Crisis ) so u and your friends and family can be safe.

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