The world produces less food than it needs and a catastrophe is feared

Yes, keep it updisaster is certain and this added to a future exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine promising a state of war that already punishes the world’s standard of living and will worsen it if the fighting is not stopped.

The world make less food of what they need 7.6 billion inhabitantsthat in less than thirty years will reach ten billion, when climate change explodes and worsens before 2050, making it theoretically necessary two planet earth to meet the need for food and water.

Population growth has increased at the rate of growth of 150 thousand inhabitants per day. In Rome is the headquarters of the FAO, the UN agency for Food and Agriculture, and the World Food Program, they produce statistics.

Ang increasing drought it caused terrible problems in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere on the continent. It is feared that this year’s famines will increase the number of starvation deaths by twenty million. In Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the statistics are grim.

In the Southern Cone of Latin America, the situation in Chile is very serious, but so is it Argentina and Paraguay experienced widespread drought.

“The world’s population is set to rise and biosphere numbers are set, there is no room for maneuvering”, Said sociobiologist Edward Wilson in“ Il Mesaggero ”.

Experts face the current rate of “excessive” annual food consumption, that is is eaten and wasted everyday.

For example, if everyone shared the typical american diet the world can only eat 2.5 billion people.

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“The world can feed a larger population if we do not eat meatwhich requires production more energy than any food”. It requires 75 times more energy to produce meat than corn.

But studies have shown that though the entire population of the world is vegetarian the land of the world cannot support the needs in the very short future.

Climate change has mercilessly hit the planet, due to current development modelsshowing how much to blame human exploitation, its excesses and its injustices.

The Latin American Southern Cone, considered the world’s barn and meat supplier, has been experiencing problems for several years that have led to fears that the drought. take firm ownership of the region, deepening of the crisis.

The pandemic that has plagued the world since the beginning of 2020 and the war on Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is another threat to the global food chain.

The drought has caused Argentina a reduction in production estimated at 4,800 million dollars, equivalent to 1% of annual GDP.

The National Institute of Agricultural Economy estimates that in Argentina there are nearly two million hectares of crops with “serious injury” in the northeastern part of the country.

Chile is the most affected country throughout the Western Hemisphere with 76% of its territory affected by water scarcity. Experts believe that the third consecutive year could be presented with the climatic phenomenon of La Niña.

paraguay, sixth largest producer of soybeans and third largest exporterhas experienced a 68.7% decrease in its commercial oilseed production in the 2021-2022 harvest.

Brazil, a global giant in agricultural production, went months from facing the worst drought in the past 91 years to suffering severe losses, 150,000 evacuated and a hundred dead from large floods between the end of last year and the beginning of 2022.

Statistics show that the challenge has an impressive scale. More food needs to be made in the next 40 years than was made in the last 8,000 years.

The rainy season in Africa, the World Food Program reported, It’s been a month and famine and drought could increase the number of desperate people moving in search of water and food to survive on over twenty million people.

Rome, correspondent

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