water is scarse,fossil fuels are expensive ,fish stocks are near collapse ,more famine in poor countries, moreover the world adds 80 million people every year,to that you can now add the global warming which is drying up vulnerable countries where farmlands depand on rain,then we have the case of china that is tending to consume more and more protein "beef,pork,eggs..."and that recquieres vast quantities of grain .
The situation before seem less complicated while it was thought that the global supply and demand balance is not in danger but suddenly by january 11 the FAQ the organisation of the united nations declaimed "very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food".
The question now is can we avert a disastrous food shortage in places where needing a few dollars more represents the difference between dining and going hungry ??specially that it's not a temporary blip but a long term issue while the most significant problem is still present which is the pression that the governement put on farmers to convert food into energy which is not making us energy independent at all and its driving up the price of everything else.
As solutions the FAQ suggest that we'll be able to increase yields by a given percentage per year and to bring more land into production that require intensive fertilizing and huge investigating, but these solutions still not applied and might even be not efficient .
Finally,looking at this epidemic seriously represent a healthy anxiety but we may yet feel the humility that comes from looking across the world at the misery of others , realizing that a lighter wallet is a lot easier to bear than a chronically empty stomach.
