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People living in poverty around the world are in danger of food shortages as the coronavirus crisis continues, the UN’s food envoy has warned, with the risk worse this year than in the period shortly after the pandemic began.

Agnes Kalibata, the special envoy to the UN secretary general for the food systems summit 2021, said: “Food systems have contracted, because of Covid-19. And food has become more expensive and, in some places, out of reach for people. Food is looking more challenging this year than last year.”

Many of the problems that experts predicted last year have been deferred, not solved, she said. “The main impact has been on markets, the shutdown of food markets. The lockdown has closed markets and that makes it very difficult for farmers.

“Last year, many countries used whatever opportunity they had to keep their food systems going. That is more difficult now. Food prices have increased significantly in some places.”

She highlighted the plight of African countries in particular, several of which are facing serious food price rises and shortages, exacerbated by problems such as drought predicted in east Africa, likely to affect northern Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. “This year, the predicted drought cycle is much more serious than last year,” she said.

And now we’ve got food inflation to worry about. The Western Producer

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ROME, Italy (Reuters) — Global food prices rose for an eighth consecutive month in January to their highest since July 2014, the United Nations food agency said, as economies continue to battle fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, averaged 113.3 points last month, compared to December’s 108.6, revised up from 107.5. Jumps in cereals, sugar and vegetable oils led the rise, the agency said.

Some governments are taking action to tackle surging domestic food prices, although such moves drive global values higher by reducing supplies for international markets. The consequence is already evident in grain prices, such as corn, hitting multi-year highs.

Grain-consuming giant China is stockpiling supplies, while Argentina has suspended sales of corn for export until Feb. 28. Russia is imposing taxes on exports of wheat, barley and corn.

The World Bank said in December that food price increases, combined with reduced incomes, had aggravated chronic and acute hunger, hitting vulnerable households in almost every country.

And now in Portland are desperate enough to dive in dumpsters for food and police tried to put a stop to it, which if someone is hungry enough to eat from a dumpster, let them. Birds and rats are going to eat it eventually anyway, so why not? NY Post

And if Texas has run out of food so quickly due to the disruption of the supply lines, what has that meant for someone in Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Serbia when the supply lines have been disrupted now for now a year? Keep in mind there really are no Western journalists left in these despotic and poor countries, so I seriously doubt we have anywhere close to accurate numbers from them.

I really think many millions have starved to death over this at this point, and with Fauci saying we may keep this up until Christmas (plus that article I linked earlier from The Western Producer) it’s only going to get worse this year. This is a Great Reset in more ways than one and the innocents who simply want to eat will suffer for it.

This post was edited on 2/18/21 at 7:13 pm