Topic: Food Crisis - Improved, Worsen or still the same in your country (No Change)? - page 6. (Read 1172 times)

This country should be in Asia and also in provinces because there are tons of vegetables there and they are cheap, which is really good, but the sad truth is that those farmers in agriculture are going to be construction workers as they can't take the price of everything like fertilizer on their crop. I do have a friend of mine who really went to the city to find a job as the profit they are getting on planting corn is not enough, even if they can get their capital. That is why he turned to a construction worker, who earns almost $10 per day.

Sadly in our country, it's not the case, Philippines is rich in agriculture, land and muck more resources than emerging countries yet for every month there is always news coming up telling us that there is again another vegetable and goods that are out of supply.

It's the system and distribution I believe that is not effective. Otherwise, they maybe just using the news to drive people emotion and put scarcity into their minds.

From the country where I'm residing, there are hardly any food shortages. Although it does happen sometimes on specific types of food like meat or some vegetables, it doesn't happen often and does not last that long. The big problem though is the price of these food. Heck, even the price of spices are soaring every now and then and only goes down for a bit then goes back up again after a short while, sometimes even higher than before. So even if not lacking in supply, most families have problems when it comes to food in this country nowadays.

This is a topic in which governments really need to put some attention into it, politicians can commit all kinds of abuses and many people do not really care about them if they are not directly affected by those actions, but when it comes to food this is not something that any politician can afford to ignore, because the moment people begin to go hungry at a large scale that is the moment that people are going to wake up and begin to demand that the government does something, and if the government in turn fails it is very likely that government is not going to remain in power for long.

At the moment, I personally do not see a shortage of products. But producers have taken advantage of the situation - and have sharply increased the prices of everything. The government is trying to take measures, but so far there has been no noticeable effect. What is more dangerous is that natural resources are shrinking, there are problems with access to fresh water - that's where the main threat is.

Food crisis is becoming stable because of the the hoarding of food stuffs so to sell it higher price for the sake of making more profits.
I just don't know when this food crisis is going to end just like the way it is in many countries of the world that people are lacking food to buy or eat because of the insufficient supply of food. Since the harvest on agricultural fertilizers is becoming expensive, this had reduced the full increase in supply of food to the market since fertilizer price is making harvest to be drastically reduced in all round.

Getting exponentially worse by the minute. Agriculture is getting shittier by the day, with more farmers' whose human rights are violated in more ways than one, courtesy of Private Business Entities forcibly and extortionately buying off land from farmers for commercial use. Tariffs on all exports and imports, government favoring the export of rice instead of actually helping the poor farmers by providing them own lands to till and technologies to improve farming. Price of every food item increasing to the point that a single cheap meal back in 2019 is almost double the price now. And more awful things that I wouldn't include here.

It seems like this is a global issue but for countries that are agricultural like the Philippines, this issue presses the country most than what most people like to admit. Things aren't getting any better and the government is not doing anything to help the very sector that keeps the whole country alive and well-fed.

In the end, the government's role in paying more attention to the agricultural sector will be able to make food security in the country more controlled. and prevent them from the next food crisis. but people's interest in farming also needs to be increased. so there must be a program that motivates its citizens to be more interested in the agricultural sector.

But for countries that do have climatic conditions or seasons that are a little extreme in their country, such as the Arab plains, they import more from abroad. They will definitely be more active in building cooperation with countries that can export food to the Arab plains.

Just like you said, food prices start getting lower when the summer season is around and even if they are pretty expensive, they are relatively cheap than other seasons. I don't think that is because there is less supply, but it is all about the supply chain and the inflation side-effects that stay for some time until the dust settles.

We've been through huge global inflation recently, and the effects of that are still haunting us, to be honest. Even if governments support farmers and there is more than enough supply of food, they will still sell them at higher prices only to cover up the costs which has probably risen due to inflation.

In my country, I don't think the situation becomes any better but on the other hand, I don't think it becomes worse. Prices increases, and there are seasonal increase of different products mostly like veggies and fruits due to the lack of supply (hoarding is also one of the reason), but after some time, the prices will slowly go down again. Of course, in other region especially in rural areas, there are still records of malnutrition and lack of access to a lot of food resources.

The situation here isn't doing better because of the lack of attention towards the agriculture sector when in fact it's one of our primary sector and the backbone of our economy. Instead of focusing on improving and helping the farmers, they import products.

Those bankers keep printing unlimited money and normal people wondering why the cost of living keeps increasing while their income stays on being stagnant. They are not aware how the financial system works especially on why the rich keep getting richer and why the poor keeps getting poorer. For me the answer is lack of information, the current school system do not teach this kind of information because the global order will be in chaos once the majority of people how the financial system works. The food crisis is real and majority of the 3rd world countries are experiencing it and it is sad to see that the unemployment rate keeps increasing makes huger one of the societal issues.

The current inflation is really sucks because the price of every commodity keeps increasing and a lot of people are suffering especially those who are living with bare minimum. But there ways to fix this, if you are part of those people who are struggling to make a living then you need first to improve something inside of yourself. There is always abundance in every aspect of human being, it is up to us to see and feel it. One of ways to do it is to consume positive contents and also spend time with people who have good lives. In that way you can catch the energy that they are emitting and you can become like them. Also thrive to learn how the world works and how to beat inflation, in that way you will never have any problem even if the cost of living keep increasing

Different countries have different crisis when it comes to food. There are countries that can produce more varieties of food that can sustain the needs of their community and there are countries rely their food supplies in importation. Right now the food crisis in our country improved a little bit, the food costs became lower when summer starts. But that is only temporary the prices will go higher again on rainy season. If the government will support the local farmers definitely there will be no shortage in food and they can also regulate and control the prices.

There have already been food crises in different parts of the world, but you're right, it's not that there's a new surging one that's currently happening. It's the same food crises that has been there many many years before, especially in parts of South Africa.

There's a narrative that's currently called "supply-side inflation". That's merely something the government made up to make everyone believe that they are not at fault for inflation. Everyone should remember that, Inflation has always been a monetary phenomenon. Research who said that. He is a great Economist.

Lacking in supply of commodities and services merely increases inflation temporarily because supply always comes back if there's demand. The inflation we're experiencing now is "sticky inflation" because the price never goes down. What is that? Because there's simply too much money in circulation.

egative impact on price movements and increases in the market which have become abnormal due to the fact that stocks that should have been abundant have become less. Irresponsible elements like this usually always want to trigger prices to rise because these people make food stocks scarce. then they sell at a high price. and this is clearly detrimental to society or ordinary consumers.

But last year in the country where I work now I saw news about these irresponsible persons who were caught by the police in this country. And what surprised me was that what was behind it all still had something to do with the people sitting in government seats. But fortunately everything has been revealed. and then after that the prices did go back to normal. and the market stock becomes abundant again. The point is that in every country there are always irresponsible parties who always want to control prices in the market. So that sometimes the food crisis does not occur just because of the crop yield crisis. but indeed it can also occur due to someone who hoards very large amounts.

Although food shortage continues to be  global issue and many countries are facing this challenging situation, as it was worsened due to COVID-19 and Ukraine conflict in previous years, which caused disruption in supply chain world-wide. Currently  the situation has improved to some extent and it is not as severe as it was a year ago. While the prices are still high due to rise in inflation, in particular the cost of transportation is extremely high due to rising prices of petroleum products but items are available in all grocery stores now.

It's just getting worst as the days goes by.

The government doesn't really care about its people, it only cares on how much money they can get from every single citizen living in the country. They are bunch of corrupted, evil people, well not all of them but most of them are. So, it is never gonna be solve because the government doesn't want to, they just let people starve to death, living in the streets, sick and malnourished children, and so on.

This world is not gonna get better, in my opinion, because we're just getting greedier and not better.

Well, in my country it's getting worst every year. The most common thing that continuously happening is the hoarding of products and the continuous expanding of these subdivisions, buildings, and leisure park that occupies most of the land where crops usually grows. Rice farmers also lost interest in continuing their business as crops buyers wants a cheap price for their harvested crops and resell it at a higher price. People here are also advocating imported rice.
Climate change, floods, and crop failure is pretty common, but doesn't usually the case for food shortages/crisis here, because our farmers are too resilient for that.
These are all the reason why we have been experiencing a rapid inflation while the salary remains at least 3-5 years before the government decides to put an increase to the minimum wage earners.

Here in my country (shh... no name), people are moving from agriculture to company jobs, should show change in food prices in sometime, I think. But, currently, food is cheap, $1 can bring you several kgs of multiple vegetables (onions, potato, tomato, cucumber) — yes, they still get relatively expensive off season but then there are other vegetables that are cheap.

It isn't food crisis if there is enough food. If there is no food shortage, I guess there can't be a food crisis. If there is enough food but people are still going hungry because they don't have the money to buy or the access to it, it's a different problem. But it isn't food crisis. And that's what's happening in our country.

The food crisis that I can remember was the sugar crisis. It caused the closure of huge businesses because even though they can afford to buy sugar there is nothing available in the market.

Probably not a food crisis, but more on food shortages especially for low income people due to unable to buy what they really need to eat. If only the government has also taken an action over this high price issues, by increasing too the minimum wages of poor workers, then there will never be food deprivation since everyone can still afford to buy it and consume it at home. Sadly, it’s not happening at the moment. While prices continue to surge, poor people continue to suffer too and just adjust their meal schedule like they have to wake up late so that breakfast and lunch will become just a one meal.