Topic: Food Crisis - Improved, Worsen or still the same in your country (No Change)? - page 4. (Read 1100 times)

Any country that wants to be self sufficient must first be able to provide for the energy needs of its citizens as well as enough locally grown and produced foods in order to feed adequately its populace. I don’t think you would be necessarily considered a rich nation if you’re self sufficient in just these areas cause they’re other factors to consider as well.
A nation that is self reliant and doesn’t rely on the resources of other countries to survive is on the path to prosperity. Although we all need each other in some capacity, a country would fare much better if they could internally source and provide sufficiently, the energy and food needs of its citizens.

I do not understand what you meant by food crisis. How do you mean that food crises has been resolved in your country but the price of food is still high. I think food crises should be when the prices of food is high that the common man cannot afford it.

Food crises is hitting almost every country but it is worse in countries that produce raw materials and export them to outside countries for further processing to food. That is the height of it. My country is known for producing cocoa but we do not produce single Bournville. That is how bad it is.

The countries are suffering but this has been occuring for a long time and only exacerbated these few years. I don't see much that we can do to improve this on our own. We can start our own gardens if the space is available and grow some of the fruits and vegetables if possible.

Maybe growing crops is not possible for every one but can be tried if there are enough free members of the family.

It is also important for us to maximize savings and control spending. We can only wait and watch as much as we can sustain.

Two things that are the core of any nation would be energy and food. Because those are things we are going to use one way or another, I would say water too but water could be considered in the food one if you want to. If you can be self-sufficient in these two things then you are going to be a rich nation.

However, England is mainly not self-sufficient in those and yet bigger than most nations. Because, they made everyone believe that their money worths more than others money, and that's how they grew strong, if you disagreed, they killed all your citizens that argued against it. Or at least that's what it was back in the day, these days it is not like that anymore and we should not be considering the situation all that great anymore, they are weaker but that's how it happened.

Bangladesh is an agricultural country. It's not that the agricultural sector is terrible, it's just that the price to grow certain food items has increased due to inflation. And the farmers producing the food products are not getting paid enough. So they can not carry out the next farming or make profits. Recent news on chilies, the farmers sold their end with 200tk per kg, and those who bought it sold to us at 700/1000tk per kg. Now imagine those farmers buying back those items again after some time! It's a total mess here. Other product's price is also increasing. So when the farmers are getting paid less and try to live their life with that money, how can they ensure the next farming?

The whole system is broken and the government is doing nothing to prevent it or solve the issue. Bangladesh is known to be one of the best agricultural countries. No issues there, but the price and inflation have got us bad. We are suffering for that reason.

Drastic change! So sad that our country is strugling. Eventhough our country are crops producer still we are importing some goods loke sugar, rice etc. I know that this because of the domino effect of what is happening to the world, but mostly my countrymen are striving everyday just to survive a day.

Crop failure, war and natural disasters are the most common factors encountered in the food crisis that has hit several countries. The food crisis cannot be taken lightly. Because food is a basic need in our life. where people will starve to death if they lack food. And I think the government is also aware of the importance of food security which must always be maintained. but the problem is that sometimes our awareness is not very high in supporting sectors that produce food.

It's obvious that you're quite concerned, and you do have valid concerns... Food production and agricultural exports are vital to any country's economy and survival. However, it is frequently disregarded in favor of more glamorous industries. We're stuck in a vicious cycle of deforestation, land conversion to urban sprawl, and diminishing food supplies.

The recession factor must not be overlooked. The worldwide pandemic of declining purchasing power is driving more and more people deeper into debt. Yes, you do have a point there. It's unsettling, especially in light of the current epidemic of loan defaults. It spreads like a virus, wreaking havoc on economies and stoking inflationary fires. It's true that consumers are suffering the effects of rising prices, as you point out.

This is a significant difficulty for us. Agrarian communities are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn and inflationary pressures. Every nation's government should immediately begin reevaluating its top priorities.

This is a global problem and should not be taken lightly. Like BTC Price, It can be dumped at any time. Yes, this problem can also occur anytime and anywhere. I have noticed that from the various types of potential that you mentioned above, it seems that the food crisis is becoming a major issue due to drastic climate change, crop failure which will dominate in the future because the water supply in the soil is decreasing.

The agricultural sector must indeed be an important focus for every government in every country. Because after all the food security of a country is very dependent on how well the progress in agriculture in that country. But now it seems that the agricultural sector is really not the main focus for many countries. Even the reforestation of the forest ended with the expansion of land for big projects in other industries which made many mountains and forests converted into industrial land. and including agricultural and plantation land has also narrowed due to the expansion of these other industries.

The other focus which is currently increasingly worrying is the declining purchasing power of the people. and this has even happened for quite a long time so that several countries have been classified as in a state called Recession.

The current decline in purchasing power has also forced many people to take out loans. and this is what I was quite surprised to know. because it turns out that even in the country where I work right now, based on some of the sources I've read, it turns out that the level of people making loans is increasing. so this condition will indeed become very concerning if it continues. and yeah it's fueled by inflation which is driving prices higher but incomes just can't keep up.

So, you wanna say that food is getting expensive in Turkey? I was there a couple of weeks ago and food is really very cheap. I've been in countries that have lower salary than Turkey and four times more expensive prices on food in supermarkets.
Agricultural sector is really getting abandoned and day by day more people are leaving villages but I think that will automatically fix over time. City lifestyle is getting stressful and boring and we are getting far away from nature and getting closer to concrete. Not only agriculture but people rarely learn trades these days, everyone is heading towards universities and then working in supermarkets or factories or doing some odd jobs cause they can't work via their profession, simply there is not as big demand as big supply we have these days.

From the discussion above, there are various concerns about the situation which is starting to get worse as seen by the reduced food supply, persistent inflation, and rising prices which are seriously affecting. People's ability to buy their basic needs. Yes. this has also caused financial difficulties for many, with some forced into debt to meet their food needs. If this continues, it will soon become a major crisis in every country in the world.

Of course, every country is influenced by various factors, starting from good or wrong agricultural practices, the lack of agricultural infrastructure development and other factors that must also be reviewed together. In this way, strategies are born that can manage this crisis and then implement effective agricultural policies so that they provide valuable guidance for overcoming the challenges of the crisis and increasing food security in the long term.

The food crisis now in our country is getting worst again at this time. The prices of vegetables, fruits and grains are getting high again. In that case i need to budget smartly so that i could still buy a good quality of food at the same time that is beyond my budget. Now it is advisable to have a mini garden on our backyard to be able to harvest fruits and veggies so that we can save in buying those items in the market. Be smart as well in buying goods make sure to buy goods that has a long shelf life in case we will keep it for months. Buy as well the veggies and fruits that are in season because if they are in season there would be a lot of supplies and we can buy them at a lower cost.

Based on what you say in your writing. So I seem to be able to understand how difficult it was there. but regarding price increases due to inflation it seems that the country where I work is a bit the same in a number of ways. But that's not all. Inflation has been said to have decreased but there is one thing that actually after rising did not decrease again. the cost of public transportation. Fuel prices have fallen. but the cost of public transportation still does not go down again. And maybe the prices of other materials also experience the same thing about the price. that is, when it has gone up, it will not decrease again.

But fortunately there is abundant food here and perhaps a food crisis can be avoided in the long term. But I don't really know about Bangladesh. Is there an advanced agricultural sector there? Or is the agricultural condition there really bad?

We cannot stop having various experience that partains food crisis because there are people in many conditions that couldn't afford eating a daily square meal and there are many wasting their own food, aside the global reserved we have on food availability, we need to encourage our people to involve in making agricultural practices their habit so everyone can have access to food availability and nutritional balance, we can also encourage others to stop food wastage, spoilage and have a desired means of preserving them.

I am from Bangladesh and the situation is getting worse day by day. I am not sure if there's any chance that this will get better any time soon. The supply is running out and there's no new stable supply. In this country, once the price of something goes up because of inflation or something else, it never comes back to being normal. And we have experienced it many times.
The situation is getting worse IMO. Middle-class people are suffering less than the poor but the effects are still there. People are getting into debt in order to provide food on the table. So you can guess the situation here. It is becoming hard to live normally with all the price increases, shortage of food supply, inflation, and whatnot.

We have food inflation crisis in Türkiye mainly caused by bad economy policies that affected national currency. Although I know one of reasons for crisis is definitely climate change too. Anatolia is lot more dry this year compared to past. We experienced lot less raining except Antalya region. Agriculture is rather dying... People are moving out of villages to urban to work at industry or services. I wish there could be agriculture promoting programs.

A bit of information about the agricultural sector in Ukraine.

The news is hardly positive in the general sense, but it confirms the transfer of a significant part of agricultural production to other regions and the high demand for the products of companies in the western regions of Ukraine

The Ukrainian agricultural sector is in a difficult situation.
What did the analysis of the latest data of the State Statistics Committee show?
How the agrarian map of Ukraine has changed over the year, how production of grain, fruits and vegetables has fallen and why the crops of buckwheat have grown many times over.
Because of the war Ukrainian farmers lost not only their physical space and crops, but also their ability to export their products and earn money. The combination of these two factors led to disastrous consequences.
This is evidenced, in particular, by the latest data from the State Statistics Committee on the work of the agro-industrial complex in 2022. During this time, the grain harvest has fallen by almost 40%, vegetables - by 25%, fruits - by 10%.
Vegetables in 2022 in Ukraine were harvested by 24.4% less than in 2021. In absolute terms, it is a loss of 2.4 million tons of products, half of which are tomatoes. The yield of tomatoes has fallen by half because they were most cultivated in the Kherson region. Before the big war, every fourth Ukrainian tomato came from there.
Cherkasskaya (+5%) and Odesskaya (+15%) oblasts helped to compensate the lost production volumes of Kherson oblast. The reason is the gravitation of vegetable growing to water * , explains the deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council Denis Marchuk. In the Odessa region there are irrigation systems that can water the fields, and in Cherkasy region there is an outlet to the Dnieper.

No water. How the disaster at the Kakhovskaya HPP could destroy vegetable growing in the South
Another factor is the reorientation of farmers.
Firstly, in conditions when there was a deficit of vegetables on the domestic market, many producers reoriented some of their farmland to vegetable growing, because it was an opportunity to earn money.
Secondly, the offer from relocated enterprises from the affected regions was added, said Marchuk. Although these enterprises often do not have access to large amounts of land, so the impact of these productions is limited.
The Sumy region, which was partially occupied in the spring, borders the Russian Federation and suffers from enemy shelling, showed an unexpected increase. The region increased production of cabbage, potatoes and other vegetables.
According to Marchuk, there are two reasons for this: businesses relocated from Kharkiv and the reorientation of land to crops that can be sold on the domestic market because of problems with export logistics.
In general, the potential of the regions for vegetable production is not yet exhausted. However, it will not be possible to replace the volume from the south of the country in two or three years, because in addition to growing vegetables the infrastructure for storage and sorting must be built.

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* The highlighted point is very important. Without water, or with difficult-to-access water, the agricultural business loses its profitability. Bringing in water is expensive and difficult.
AGT has a very strong, I would say strategic advantage - almost half of the perimeter of agricultural land in close proximity, "washed", by the waters of the Tisza River. And there is more than enough water, as there are no large enterprises consuming large amounts of water.
So the presence of problems, makes this company more competitive with other producers of agricultural products, and increases the investment attractiveness!
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Conflict between farmers and herders is a symptom of environmental deterioration and calls for open communication.

Afforestation and encouraging environmentally sound land use are two potential strategies for combating desertification. Infrastructure to control surplus water, such as flood defences or better drainage, may be the answer for flood-prone locations.

The government's plan to boost domestic production by restricting trade has both positive and negative aspects. While the goal itself is admirable, the current situation makes it more difficult to achieve. Possible solutions include a less extreme form of import regulation, such as selective border openings or import governance, rather than complete isolation.

The situation in the country I live is complex. Global warming is causing desertification in some areas and flooding in other areas. Due to the increase in land aridity, most herdsmen are migrating to agricultural lands thereby destroying farmlands. This has led to armed conflict between these herders and farmers. This conflict has led to the destruction of lives and fertile agricultural lands. With so many farmers losing their lands the supply of crops has reduced leading to an increase in the prices of food.

In the southern area of the country agricultural lands is been destroyed by flooding caused by overflowing rivers caused by high rainfall.

The main issue is that the government has shut the borders of our country to check the inflow of food items in a bid to encourage local production. This has led to a high cost of food. But we are expecting that the price of food will reduce because the new government is proposing to open the border of the country.