Topic: Food Crisis - Improved, Worsen or still the same in your country (No Change)? - page 5. (Read 1172 times)

Yes climate change has really affected the agricultural sector because of the effect caused by man with the activities of carbon emissions to the ozone. I think just last week that issue came up in the summit held in France. I think the government need to do more in the area of support local farmers who have individual and little farms in their neighbourhood by supplying seeds and fertilizer to be able to help them avoid rotational farming on same land so that they can at least support themselves year in and year out in the family feeding. Also those big farmers and mechanized farmers need adequate and interest free loan to road the farms, government can provide even tractors and other mechanized farming equipment plus irrigation because water is important for farming since the rains somehow is also affected by the ozone depletion.

I agree with what you said about the farming method. In recent years, we can no longer experience 4 seasons because now there are only 2 seasons. Spring and Autumn months do not show themselves as before. This creates major disruptions in the production of food products. Now the agricultural sector needs a new agricultural method. In the same garden where a vegetable was grown 10 years ago, that vegetable no longer grows. The seasons have changed, but our farming methods are the same.

Food scarcity has been story of the past here in my country. The country number one citizen (president) before the transition of power has publicly told us engage in farming. He said our fertile lands can not continue to waste. Grow what you'll eat else hunger will kill you. Unless for commercial purposes, you don't need a large land to farm for you and your family consumption. Government has failed ab initio and we should not expect them to do everything for us. We can get ride of this food scarcity ourselves.

I don't follow the news too much in my country but if there ever is a worsening in the food crisis here, a lot of people online would talk about it and so far with only the dead billionaire memes on my feed, I guess the crisis has stayed the same and that the government hasn't done anything about it to alleviate the crisis because if they did, I'm sure even the state-owned TV channel would talk about it even if it's a propaganda and the truth was inflated.

Seeing the stories of other members, I feel bad that most of them can easily be solved but it seems that logistics and red tape in the government is making it difficult to do. I find it absurd in the first place that we even have a food crisis, food should be a basic human right and it's a sin that some people will choose to starve others to line their pockets.

Food crises caused by climate change are very common, but if the changing climate occurs more dramatically, of course there will be adverse effects on human life. Because the prolonged bad climate will definitely make it difficult for humans when they want to work to produce so that any crisis can occur even though the most dominant thing is the food crisis. And I think there isn't much of a solution to this because everyone needs to adopt a farming method that is more suitable in a particular climate with the aim of getting a product that can be consumed for life.

and people are now more focus on finding earth like planet so that people can go there incase something happened on earth so it means that there are only few mostly NGOs are fighting this stuff to put on halt or somewhat try to recover what we humans done on our mother earth. As the population grows, the food supply is getting shorter, meaning that in the near future we will be short on food, and at that time only wealthy people can afford to eat.

The food crisis in several countries is still happening. But luckily in my country everything looks fine. But I see the potential that could make a food crisis happen in my country for the next few generations. Namely, currently the next generation in agriculture seems to have experienced a very significant decline. The profession of a farmer is currently considered trivial by some of the younger generation. They are not too interested in all things Agriculture which is actually the most important thing in the sustainability of food security on this earth.

Even though there are still young people who pay attention to agriculture, this makes agriculture even easier now with the introduction of sophisticated technology in agriculture that makes it easier for farmers. But the number of enthusiasts in this field remains very small compared to the interest of young people in other fields.

Current climate change is also very worrying. for even now the time between the rainy season and summer has changed. And the season is becoming difficult to predict at this time.

Indeed, already now we really see how quickly the climate on our planet is changing and the reason for this is the reckless predatory activity of man. The process has already been launched and to stop it, it will take the colossal work of all states and inhabitants of the planet. And since humanity has never been able to negotiate even in the face of a deadly threat, this process will only get worse.
In a period of dramatic climate change, large losses are inevitable, and it takes a long time to restore balance. Therefore, in my opinion, the food crisis will only grow in the near future.

This means that in your country there are several factors at the same time that can affect the market price to be always high. Natural factors (natural disasters) that make stocks become scarce and thus trigger price increases because there has been an imbalance between demand and supply of goods where there is more demand than stock on the market. And maybe the government intends to provide more stock on the market through imports but again this cannot go according to plan because there are irresponsible parties who have hoarded supplies on the market so that they become scarce and of course this will also exacerbate prices there. I am sorry about this condition which sounds very sad. Hopefully in the future the government there can provide more support to the agricultural sector and also build an investigative body to investigate irresponsible parties who have made the availability of goods on the market scarce and so that they are deterrent and so that no irresponsible parties are left behind. Who is indeed trying to manipulate the price in the market by way of hoarding.

The cost of fertilizers has increased, and there are many other factors affecting the production of food in my own region. For a while now, the problem of insecurity has been one of the major factors in my own region, where farms are attacked in their farms and also settlements. As a result, this has made farms fearful of going to their farms, leaving us with a shortage of people entering agriculture.

Now that the government is genuinely waging war on the bandits, things are improving. Despite the banditry activity, and government-organized initiatives to also encourage people to cultivate in their compound, different ways were devised specifically to promote agriculture, and I believe there will be a noticeable improvement in the production of food this year.

What happens is that too many things are happening at once and this is creating instability in the economy, the effects of the pandemic are still here, the war waged by Russia against Ukraine has raised the costs of food, the 2008 crisis was never really resolved and its effects were just postponed to a future date, so when you take everything into account it is not surprising that countries are finding difficult to manage their economies and solve so many issues at once.

In my country, the effect is being felt on price increase of products. Whenever there is a decrease with the production caused by factors such as floods and other natural dissasters, there is an increase with the price of necessities because of demand ofcourse and it is consumers who are taking more of its impact. I'd say things are no longer under control of industries in my country especially with regards to government support in agriculture. They are more of importwtion from other countries than to help our own production, which is really sad. Hoarding issues with big companies are also obvious most of the time and that is because I am living in a country wherein rich becomes richer and poor individuals remain on the same state for decades.

Not only the food crisis, but the financial recession is going on all over the world, as a result of which the prices of all goods are rising in almost all the countries of the world. And to avoid this situation, everyone has to come forward and whoever can do the minimum from their position should do it . And I don't think that only Russia and Ukraine are responsible for the war, there is also the effect of the passing Covid 19 global pandemic.

I see that at this time, many farmers are no longer interested in agriculture because of the bad benefits as well as the difficulties in farming because climate change is increasingly destroying the environment. In addition, after the pandemic and the tense war situation between Russia and Ukraine, the inflation and food shortage became serious. I think that governments of all countries need to act strongly and come up with effective solutions in this situation, otherwise this will be a bad scenario no different from a pandemic disaster.

Food price has actually high and increase here in my country, even other material needed has triple in price which makes life inconvenience for every family unlike the way it was before, the economic is much harder. But some assume is do to lack of importation of goods from Russia and Ukraine crises.

It seems that while there is not a shortage of food, there is a shortage of affordable food where you live which is just as bad, as if those with limited resources cannot afford to feed themselves then it is as if that food did not existed anyway, and this is dangerous, there are some studies that show the the Arab Spring had as one of its main causes the increase on the costs of food on that region of the world, and if this last for too long then civil unrest may begin to manifest in some countries.

I can say this from my experience as an agriculturist and extension agent that agricultural produce are on the high side and increasing every day by day.

First and foremost, agricultural work force is drastically reducing as the youths are no more interested in farming as they see it as a dirty job to reckon with. The government on their part is also part of the reasons why the youths are not really interested in agricultural production. They do not supply farmers with the basic requirements that they the government are to supply so that the farmers would be encouraged. No agricultural input, no subsidy, no agricultural loan instead they share the money amongst themselves and their lackeys while the  farmers are left with the little income they have to support their production and it leads them to increase the price for farm produce.

Transportation cost too is another factor affecting increase in price of food stuff commodities. The hike in price of petroleum products too affect the transportation cost there by making Farmers with no option to transport their goods from the farm to the city where they can be able to sell their produce which they must add to the initial price of the goods to make sure they recover their expense.

There are lots of challenges faced by the rural farmers which is not attended to hence the rural farmers are looking for various ways to sort things out themselves which leads to increase in food price. No farmer would want to spend heavily and sell cheap, it is not possible.

So therefore in line with the subject matter of this thread, food price is on the increase on daily basis here in my country as there's no doubt about it.

 

Agricultural products got expensive because of increase in the price of Fertilizer, fuel, hiring machines and power consumption. Agriculture is cost effective and requires power for irrigation on lands that lack water. Hence, the processes required to get food ready takes up more money than it used to in the past. Additionally, transportation is another reason why food gets expensive and some areas lack certain farm produces due to transportation cost. Perishable foods may not remain fresh except if transported through an Aeroplane, so farmers and food vendors are facing an increase in production costs and it'll certainly affect the price of farm produce, moving through the production chains from the producer down to the final consumer. However, the increase in food cost has affected the way people eat, few Families can be sure of 3 square meal depending on their income. Food is meant to be the cheapest stock in market, but today the price keeps skyrocketing without any decline. Hoping to see a better price sooner when the price of Electricity bills and fuel declines.

This problem should actually be the focus of governments to pay more attention to the welfare of the agricultural sector in their respective countries. There should be more help for the farmers. And also the government should make it easier for farmers to get fertilizer. because I heard that the price of fertilizer has increased rapidly but what's worse is that the stock of fertilizer in the market is very thin. so that farmers find it difficult to get fertilizer.

indeed some of the farmers took the initiative to make natural fertilizers with a fermentation process which became probiotic fertilizers and the like. but the agricultural results are not as good as when using manufactured fertilizers.

This job or profession shift has indeed happened a lot today even in the past few years. Especially when farmers find it difficult to benefit from their agricultural products. Because the price of chemical fertilizers is getting more expensive, while the price of crops still doesn't have an increase that adjusts to the price of fertilizer. So many farmers are switching professions. There are even those who change agricultural land into housing. In essence, agricultural land and the profession as a farmer will decrease. Because many things complicate the field of agriculture today.

Indeed, today when stocks are still abundant and there are still many farmers who do not change professions, they still produce abundant crops. but in fact from year to year it is possible that crop yields will decrease due to less and less agricultural land and fewer and fewer people remaining in the profession as farmers. if this happens then in the next few years a food crisis could occur because food security will obviously decrease from year to year. while the human population will continue to increase rapidly.