China Crisis
The Connection Between Climate Change And Global Food Prices
Global food production has been seriously impacted by intense weather attributed to climate change. Along with diminished supply, demand is increasing. Creating countries seek to claim a larger share of the world’s accessible food. The extreme weather, which meteorologists say will persist, will continue to drive up food rates, as well as political instability, for the foreseeable future.
The warmer it gets, the more it costs to buy food
World food costs hit an all-time high last month. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, Food Price Index in December was higher than the 2008 food problems had. Last week, FAO announced that globe food rates rose another 3 percent in January. The costs going up for wheat, corn, sugar and oils have made it so globe food prices have gone up so much. A Russian drought in 2010 reduced global wheat stockpiles. There has been flooding in Brazil and Australia too. This caused food production to go down even more. The wheat in China is threatened by a drought in China, according to a FAO warning on February 8. China is the world’s largest wheat producer currently. This was because domestic demand was so high. Wheat will be needed by 1.3 billion Chinese from another source soon.
Food demand around the world
Food production across the world has been cut into by the weather. At the same time, the desire for food is going up. Every single day, there are 200,000 more individuals that need food in the globe. Several of them end up starving though. More milk, meat and eggs are being added to the diets of 3 billion trying to raise the standard of living while others are starving. The grain in the United States produces about 400 million tons. About 120 million tons of that is used to make care ethanol. The 2011 crop is going to have to be really big in order to make up for the rising food prices just like the 2008 record harvest made up for the food turmoil.
Climate change impact
The world could possibly be one poor harvest from unprecedented food turmoil. When it comes to weather, 2010 was the warmed year. Some of the globe had land get dried up due to rising temperatures. Warmer oceans unleashed water vapors, flooding others. Meteorologists warn the world ought to expect more frequent droughts and flooding as the climate changes. Global food production could continue to decline while global food desire can do nothing however increase. The world’s poor can be affected first and suffer most. There is a good chance food riots will start. There will be political unrest with this.
Citations
MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/41481344/?gt1=43001
Christian Science Monitor
csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2011/0208/Brace-yourself-for-the-food-price-bubble
New York Times
nytimes.com/2011/02/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1297353635-Tca/D+BUBe4oUeR0tS4SYw
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