Svein Tore Holsether, head of agri company Yara International, believes that the world is heading to a global food crisis as a result of the Ukraine War. Russia and the Ukraine export around a quarter of the world’s wheat and half of its sunflower products, such as seeds and oil. Suspension of this vital food resource will have an inevitable impact upon food reserves. Increasing gas prices are also resulting in a rise in fertiliser costs, and some farmers cannot afford fertiliser and are going ahead planting, hoping to get some yield. “For me, it’s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis – it’s how large the crisis will be,” said Holsether.
https://summit.news/2022/03/08/war-will-cause-hell-on-earth-for-global-food-prices/
“The world is heading for a “catastrophic” global food crisis as a result of the war in Ukraine, which will cause “hell on earth” for food prices, according to experts.
“Half the world’s population gets food as a result of fertilisers… and if that’s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50%,” Svein Tore Holsether, head of agri company Yara International, told the BBC.
Known as “the breadbasket of Europe,” Russia and Ukraine export around a quarter of the world’s wheat and half of its sunflower products, such as seeds and oil.
“For me, it’s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis – it’s how large the crisis will be,” said Holsether, noting that increasing gas prices were causing a steep rise in the cost of fertiliser.
David Beasley, the head of the World Food Programme, was if anything even more pessimistic with his comments.
“Just when you think hell on earth can’t get any worse, it does,” he said.
Noting that countries like Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia are dependent on Ukraine for around 50 per cent of their grains, Beasley noted the stunning turnaround.
“So you’re going from being a breadbasket to now, literally, having to hand out bread to them. It’s just an incredible reverse of reality,” he said.
With the number of people facing starvation worldwide having already spiked from 80 million to 276 million before Russia’s invasion, thanks largely to COVID lockdowns, that figure is set to increase yet again.
Meanwhile, Russia has also threatened to close its main gas pipeline to Germany if the west bans Russian oil, a move that would cause oil prices to more than double to $300 a barrel.
Presumably, the ultra wealthy elite who are currently panic buying survival bunkers have already made preparations to cram them with storable food that will last for many years.
For those already on the poverty line or worse, it’s a very different situation.”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-11-the-food-riots-of-2022-have-already-begun.html
“Food riots have already begun in Iraq (Al Jazeera). Lebanon has announced rationing of wheat (Irish Times). Ukraine has halted all exports of most grains, while Russia has halted exports of fertilizer and many sources of natural gas.
The world is being plunged into an engineered global starvation scenario, and in North America, we only have a few months of abundant food still in the supply line.
Agricultural experts have told me the May and June crop yield reports for 2022 will be “catastrophic.” By July, it will become obvious to even the deniers that food availability — even in America — is severely hampered. Empty shelves will plague US grocery retailers throughout the second half of this year.
Yesterday on the Alex Jones Show, I predicted that 1-2 billion people on planet Earth will face risk of starvation by the end of this year. Without fossil fuel-based fertilizers, 4 billion people would die (about half the current population).
Get ready for food rationing passports and armed guards at grocery stores
As I explain in my HRR podcast below, this crisis will lead to:
- Robberies and flash mob looting of grocery stores.
- Grocery stores responding by beefing up security with armed guard and security checkpoints.
- Government initiating food rationing passports that will eventually be tied to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
In other words, tyrannical governments are going to use this engineered crisis to force people into CBDCs and food rationing control systems. If you want to eat, you will be forced to use their digital wallet system, where they have total surveillance and control over your spending behavior.
Oh, and by the way, they will collapse the dollar during all this in order to exacerbate the panic and destroy whatever assets people are foolishly keeping in dollars.
This is all covered in the 56-minute Situation Update at the bottom of this article.
Intel on scarcity of ammo, satellite phones, bulk food supplies and more
I’ve also posted a 20-minute intel update based on information received from an ammunition retailer, a satellite phone retailer and our own direct experience attempting to purchase bulk food resources by the pallet (many thousands of pounds at a time):
- All satellite phones are blown out of inventory, across the world, and now sat phones that once cost just $900 are fetching $3500 on the open market.
- Ammunition sales have spiked 166% according to one prominent retailer, following the Feb 24th Russian action on Ukraine.
- The future supply of sat phones will see at least a 40% increase in price due to supply chain demand and disruptions. There are currently waiting lists to receive sat phones toward the end of April.
- Food commodities used in the preparedness food industry are skyrocketing in price while supply is heavily strained. The supply hasn’t yet collapsed, as we still have a few months’ buffer of raw materials in the pipeline, but we expect catastrophic shortages to begin this summer.
“The world got a lot more unstable the moment Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his forces to invade neighboring Ukraine in ways that the vast majority of people could not imagine beforehand.
Just now, people throughout the world are discovering how much food and food production products both nations supplied to the planet, and worse, they are waking up to the realization that the war will make food insecurity far worse in the coming months — on top of an already weak global supply chain that has been in crisis for a year, thanks to perpetual COVID-19 lockdowns.
Ukraine and Russia account for a plurality of grain, oats, corn and other food exports to Europe as well as Africa. Moreover, they also account for a very sizeable portion of fertilizer — all of which are now in far shorter supply.
Earlier this week, the Ukrainian government ordered all food exports halted to ensure that there would be enough for Ukrainians, millions of whom are already facing starvation and deprivation thanks to the Russian onslaught.
Now, WorldFertilizer.com reports that Nutrien, a leading fertilizer manufacturer, has said the Russian invasion is liable to lead to prolonged disruptions “to the global supply of potash and nitrogen crop nutrients.”
The site adds:
Interim Chief Executive Ken Seitz said Nutrien will boost potash production if it sees sustained supply problems in Russia and Belarus, the world’s second- and third-largest potash producing countries after Canada.
The US, European Union and other countries have imposed economic sanctions against Russia, moves that could hinder its exports of natural gas, potash and nitrogen. Belarus, Russia’s ally, is already subject to European and US sanctions that have restricted its potash exports.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has also raised concerns about wheat, corn and vegetable oil supply problems in the Black Sea region, driving up world prices.
“We could probably see a prolonged, more prolonged disruption in (potash) supply out of that part of the world,” Seitz said at a BMO Capital Markets investor conference this week.
“We’re looking very closely at, if this is sustained, how do we deploy miners and open up ground in a very practical, pragmatic way?” he noted further.
Seitz said that Nutrien anticipates selling as much as 14.3 million tons of potash, the most ever, this year, and is also considering further expansion of its operations in order to meet demand.
Russia is a key supplier of fertilizer to Brazil, making that country’s agricultural production especially vulnerable to supply disruptions, WorldFertilizer.com reported.
In addition, Russia’s invasion has also put a damper on its exports of nitrogen-based fertilizers, while at the same time, the price of natural gas in Europe, which is key to the production of nitrogen, skyrocketed (again) over the past week and is far higher than prices in North America.
“We’re going to run our plants, run them flat out,” Seitz said. “Could we see interruptions in exports out of Russia? Yes. Can we see plant closures? We could.”
Meanwhile, Joe Biden was told earlier this week to go in front of the cameras and ban imports of Russian oil, leading to massive spikes in the price of gas — after prices had been steadily rising for the past year following his reversals of Trump-era energy policies that made our country energy independent for the first time in decades.
So with higher energy prices, a supply chain crisis that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is doing nothing to solve, record-high inflation and escalating food prices, Americans will soon be hit with even greater costs and food insecurity as fertilizer shortages lead to lower livestock and crop production in our country.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-11-russia-ukraine-conflict-collapse-western-civilization.html