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In 2022, there is an ongoing food crisis that is resulting in high [[inflation]] in food prices and increased [[food insecurity]] and hunger.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=CNBC|title=India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/countries-banning-food-exports-amid-rising-prices-inflation.html}}</ref> In the United States, the wheat crop was affected by a dry winter and a soggy spring which has diminished the output severely.<ref>{{News citation|title=U.S. wheat crop hit by dry winter then soggy spring, adding to global tightness|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-wheat-crop-hit-by-dry-winter-then-soggy-spring-adding-global-tightness-2022-05-31/}}</ref><blockquote>"Every society is three meals away from chaos" | In 2022, there is an ongoing food crisis that is resulting in high [[inflation]] in food prices and increased [[food insecurity]] and hunger.<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=CNBC|title=India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/countries-banning-food-exports-amid-rising-prices-inflation.html}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|newspaper=NPR|title=With food prices climbing, the U.N. is warning of crippling global shortages|date=2022-05-23|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100592132/united-nations-food-shortages}}</ref> In the United States, the wheat crop was affected by a dry winter and a soggy spring which has diminished the output severely.<ref>{{News citation|title=U.S. wheat crop hit by dry winter then soggy spring, adding to global tightness|url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-wheat-crop-hit-by-dry-winter-then-soggy-spring-adding-global-tightness-2022-05-31/}}</ref><blockquote>"Every society is three meals away from chaos" | ||
– [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]</blockquote> | – [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]</blockquote> | ||
== Responses == | |||
The bourgeois capitalist-imperialist governments have limited tools to respond to the food crisis without violating their "free market" principals. <ref>{{News citation|author=Sarah Carlson|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=Food and capitalism: a crisis of waste and destruction|date=2013-05-20|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/food-and-capitalism-a-crisis-html/}}</ref> | |||
The socialist world directs its production in line with the needs of its citizens, which allows for greater food security. Examples of this is China's state-directed advances in food technology, such as the invention of rice that can grow in saltwater. <ref>{{News citation|newspaper=World Economic Forum|title=Food security: This is how China plans to feed its 1.4 billion people|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/china-seawater-rice-food-security/}}</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 20:35, 31 May 2022
In 2022, there is an ongoing food crisis that is resulting in high inflation in food prices and increased food insecurity and hunger.[1][2] In the United States, the wheat crop was affected by a dry winter and a soggy spring which has diminished the output severely.[3]
"Every society is three meals away from chaos" – Lenin
Responses
The bourgeois capitalist-imperialist governments have limited tools to respond to the food crisis without violating their "free market" principals. [4]
The socialist world directs its production in line with the needs of its citizens, which allows for greater food security. Examples of this is China's state-directed advances in food technology, such as the invention of rice that can grow in saltwater. [5]
References
- ↑ "India isn’t the only one banning food exports. These countries are doing the same". CNBC.
- ↑ "With food prices climbing, the U.N. is warning of crippling global shortages" (2022-05-23). NPR.
- ↑ "U.S. wheat crop hit by dry winter then soggy spring, adding to global tightness".
- ↑ Sarah Carlson (2013-05-20). "Food and capitalism: a crisis of waste and destruction" Liberation News.
- ↑ "Food security: This is how China plans to feed its 1.4 billion people". World Economic Forum.