The Biggest Global Food Crisis of Our Generation is Coming

 There will be famine.

Ukraine is a huge producer of grain but the farmers have taken up guns rather than plows and planters.

Ships and truck drivers are part of the massive supply chain problems left over from Covid shut downs.

Diesel fuel necessary to plant crops is at $5/gallon.

Fertilizer for the grain fields was up 300% before the war broke out and who knows how much higher that number could go?

If you live in India, Africa or Central America and only make $5,000 per year, you simply don't have the money to buy food if food prices double.

If you live in America and a box of Cheerios costs $9, a steak is $32 and your car takes $100 worth of gas to fill it up, the Middle Class will be hurting.

By the end of 2022, we are going to witness very serious shortages of food in many parts of the globe.  In fact, World Bank President David Malpass is openly admitting that we are now facing "a huge supply shock" as a result of the war in Ukraine.  

Of course we were already moving into a global food crisis even before the war erupted.  

According to the UN, worldwide food prices in February 2022 were 20.7 percent higher than they were in February 2021, fertilizer prices have gone absolutely nuts, crop production is down all over the planet due to crazy weather patterns, and supply chain problems caused by the pandemic continue to create ongoing headaches.  

But now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, that is going to push this rapidly growing global food crisis to a level that none of us have ever seen before.

Under normal conditions, Ukraine exports tremendous amounts of food and is considered to be one of the most important "breadbaskets" on the entire planet.

Unfortunately, everything has changed now, and this has pushed the global price of wheat up 55 percent since a week before the invasion happened...

Ukrainian farmers have been forced to neglect their fields as millions flee, fight or try to stay alive. Ports are shut down that send wheat and other food staples worldwide to be made into bread, noodles and animal feed. And there are worries Russia, another agricultural powerhouse, could have its grain exports upended by Western sanctions.

While there have not yet been global disruptions to wheat supplies, prices have surged 55% since a week before the invasion amid concerns about what could happen next. If the war is prolonged, countries that rely on affordable wheat exports from Ukraine could face shortages starting in July, International Grains Council director Arnaud Petit told The Associated Press.

I really don't like that "shortages starting in July" part.

That definitely sounds rather ominous.

Right now, the global price of food is the highest that it has ever been, and Russia and Ukraine normally account for "nearly a third of the world's wheat and barley exports".

Here;  The Biggest Global Food Crisis Of Our Generation Is Coming (prophecynewswatch.com)

Let's remember, when things get ugly and times are uncertain, our strength is in our salvation and our joy comes from the Lord.  I don't know what we well see happening this year but we have peace knowing that our Lord has it all under His control.  Nothing is happening outside of His grand plan.  He is the author of the very beginning and the very end.  We rest in that knowledge.