African Leaders Seek Grain Commitments at Russia-Africa Summit https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/27/african-leaders-seek-grain-commitments-at-russia-summit/ #Africa #AfricanUnion #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #grain #BlackSeaGrainInitiative #Odesa #Putin #Assoumani #worldhunger #politicaliq #news #politics

💔 Deeply devastated to witness Russia targeting Port Odessa, disrupting grain shipments in and out of Ukraine. This aggression plunges the world, especially Africa, into hunger, as we heavily rely on food and fertilizer from these regions. We urgently need leaders that embrace peace and cooperation to safeguard global food security! 🌍🌾 #StopRussianAggression #WorldHunger #PeaceForUkraine

The box asks 'what's on your mind?' and the answer is #cropfailure & #worldhunger .
Time to prepare basics for the coming months, years, decades? #climatebreakdown

““Russia has dealt another blow to the world’s most vulnerable,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said upon hearing the news that President Vladimir Putin had decided to end that country’s participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. That deal allowed the export of Ukrainian (and Russian) grain, crucial not just to stabilizing prices in the affluent West, but also to basic food security elsewhere. “This is really another act of cruelty,” Thomas-Greenfield added.

She’s right. The decision to hold hostage millions of people in the global south, who are already bearing the brunt of so many modern horrors — from conflict and displacement to drought and the wanton destruction of their landscapes and habitats — is the act of a deranged and desperate man.

Still, it’s not Putin who turned dozens of countries, whose people once were able to till the soil and nourish themselves, into dependencies whose populations have no choice but to purchase imported — often low-quality and genetically engineered — grain. We helped do that, through food assistance provided for purportedly charitable reasons, and through our ideological attachment to globalized trade.”

https://www.sarahchayes.org/post/grain

#Russia #Ukraine #Putin #WorldHunger #FoodInsecurity #GlobalizedTrade

“Climate change threatens to cause ‘synchronised harvest failures’ across the globe”

(Could monoculture, corporate agricultural empires [the article argues against free trade], and not listening to Indigenous people around the globe also be part of the problem?)

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-threatens-to-cause-synchronised-harvest-failures-across-the-globe-with-implications-for-australias-food-security-209250

#ClimateCrisis #Agriculture #WorldHunger #Poverty #Resilience

Found this re.horticulture - but impact of mega-wildfires on global bulk crop yields, anyone? #ClimateEmergency #WorldHunger https://onfruit.ca/2023/06/10/its-up-in-the-air-concern-about-the-impacts-of-smoke-from-wildfire-on-horticultural-crops/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01465-4?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=730c4592c5-briefing-dy-20230503&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-730c4592c5-47830664 #FoodCrops #Fungus #WorldHunger

I have been listening to #LexFridman and his run of #AI thought leaders. A big question hit me today that seems unaddressed: instead of focusing on how AI might wipe us out, why do I not hear any questions about whether AI can prevent us from wiping ourselves out? #GlobalWarming #WorldHunger #Poverty #Pollution

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) lost three staff members due to violence in parts of Sudan on Saturday.
#Sudan #worldhunger

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/the-hunger-crisis/world-hunger-facts/

#WorldHunger
#FeedingTheWorld

https://www.voanews.com/a/one-year-later-somalia-still-feeling-effects-of-ukraine-war-/6977881.html

How many more need to die before we get serious about peace talks?

#somalia #worldhunger #antiwar #ukraine

#worldhunger #Humanitariancrises #auspol
I scroll through Instagram regularly these days, and what constantly pops up are humans in crisis with appeals for help. Like Syria & Turkey - devastated by war, climate events and more. No food, water, medical services and the like.
Then I contrast that with individuals in Australia with $400m in their Super and politicians like Angus Taylor screaming because how dare the govt take away their tax breaks..

"In other words, the world remains in a somewhat precarious situation where, if just one thing goes wrong — a worsening twist to the war in Ukraine, a bad harvest in some important supplying nation – global food prices could spike (again)"

Why #Russia's war on #Ukraine didn't lead to a dramatic worsening of #WorldHunger | #UkraineWar |Goats and Soda : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/27/1159630215/the-russia-ukraine-wars-impact-on-food-security-1-year-later

"We report here that dosage differences in a cluster of monocot-specific 12-OXOPHYTODIENOATE REDUCTASE genes from subfamily III (OPRIII) modulate key differences in wheat root architecture, which are associated with grain yield under water-limited conditions... OPRIII genes provide a useful entry point to engineer root architecture in wheat and other cereals"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36248-y#:~:text=We%20report%20here%20that%20dosage%20differences%20in%20a%20cluster%20of%20monocot%2Dspecific%2012%2DOXOPHYTODIENOATE%20REDUCTASE%20genes%20from%20subfamily%20III%20(OPRIII)%20modulate%20key%20differences%20in%20wheat%20root%20architecture%2C%20which%20are%20associated%20with%20grain%20yield%20under%20water%2Dlimited%20conditions

#wheat #crops #agriculture #bioengineering #plantBiology #genomics #foodProduction #cropYields #worldHunger

#news #culture #politics #UN #WEF #WHO #UN #world #worldhunger #poverty #crime #war #pandemic #abuse #country

Today I learned #TIL that the #UN United Nations published an article that said that #WorldHunger was a good thing because it makes more pliable #workers

@sasyecat @rbreich Musk's challenge to the #UN was for a solution to #EndHunger, not just feed a bunch of people for awhile. The problem with #hunger is it is nearly 100% of the time politically caused. The money exists, the will of governments and peoples to spend it to end hunger doesn't. We must solve the political problem. #WorldHunger #Politics

Why are so Many People going Hungry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke06QUfOeTE
#hunger #food #resources #poverty #basicneeds #UN #worldhunger

Well worth reading this examination of issues around ecomodernist narratives, very common in the media and from some "environmental champions" about #ElectricCars #RenewableEnergy production, the #ClimateCrisis #WorldHunger and #PrecisionFermentation (lab produced food)

http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/posts/024/index.shtml

Also on youtube if you prefer watching to reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZks2Jwsw2U

🎬 Vandana Shiva On the Real Cause of World Hunger
🔴 https://youtu.be/jEqS6rnoyYc
#Right2Food #FoodSystems #WorldHunger