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https://www.agriculture.com/weather/current-conditions/drought-is-creeping-across-the-corn-belt
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/europe-s-wilted-wheat-leaves-world-hunting-elsewhere-for-grain
https://www.farmweekly.com.au/story/6899086/eu-cereal-exports-lower-after-a-poor-harvest/?cs=5153
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/france-records-driest-july-in-six-decades/ar-BB17vykH
https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/93-percent-of-colorado-experiencing-severe-drought-or-worse/article_ea9b20ba-e95a-11ea-a942-ff97a586eb1a.html
https://khak.com/nearly-all-of-iowa-seeing-drought-conditions/




The third horseman is coming ....the Final Battle Near !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70nC0FbxiU

This is one of the consequences of climate change. :(

Yeah, but so many people are denying it or downplaying the consequences. I really hope humanity will get to the point realising climate change as a huge threat for humankind.

Human civilization that is increasingly advanced seems to have no positive impact on nature, where disasters often occur without our realizing that the causes are our own. I hope that it will get better soon and there will not be a famine that hits us all.

Time to stock up on a few decades of MREs, not that anyone can afford that many.

If you'd shown someone even 50 years ago what the world population would be by now they would've automatically assumed we would all be starving to death yet we're muddling along. Let's hope we can improvise our way out of a tight spot if there is one.

Crazy world! First problems during the pandemic was when toilet paper was out and people started stock piling soap and toilet paper at home like crazy. It makes sense that food will be the main issue during the second and third wave of corona. Better to prepare ourselfs already and building up stockpiles. This will be so sad once people start selling a bag of apples for 100$. We should try to become self suficient again as a nation and not rely on imports all around the world.

https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-high-world-grain-production-for-second-year-in-a-row
RECORD-HIGH WORLD GRAIN PRODUCTION FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW


In other words, no famine in sight, no panic, no apocalypse, no nothing.
Just the usual jobless OP that starts stupid topics, trying to convince himself that others will suffer too, fortunately for us, it won't happen.


Malthus thought that when we will never reach this as we would all be dead from hunger by the time the population would grow this big, but we were 800 million at the time of his death and now we're close to 8 billion, we haven't reached this level of human civilization by standing still and not acting, there is so much room for improvement in agriculture we could easily feed 10 billion.

Nature has given a balance to use from it -what it produces- and by doing this we are giving it adequate/friendly environs to replenish and sustain humanity for generations, but man WANTS MORE, and activities of men chokes life's out of nature.
Man now substitute nature products with man made of man completed products which wastes are toxic to nature or not decomposable.
Nature actually sustained man in years long ago. But human has to advance -science/technology/art- we can limit wastes causing harm to -nature/climate- use bio-base or bio-friendly products.

I don't know. I am still not worried about it.
Maybe I just can't see the bigger picture.

But as of now, I am trying to teach my children survival and conserving because they might be the ones to be hit by that scarcity of food.
I am not neglecting the fact that it may happen.
The world population is getting higher and there might come a time that selfishness will rule the world.

Increasing population is uncontrollable especially that during this quarantine, the increase in the pregnancy of women are there. Couples have so much time to spend together and we all know that resources are slowly decreasing due to climate change and disasters that are occurs every year. I'm not being negative but that's what is happening right now in our society and in the world. We don't need to make ourselves blind and numb about the issues that we are experiencing. We need to act and help our government and ourselves to prevent this problems from happening.

Actually, most of the families here are experiencing famine already (I saw it from my friend's family). Seems that pandemic acts faster than the climate change. But wait, there's more! The tension between our country and China goes higher so yeah the fourth horsemen is waving on us already :'(.

Hmm I guess I'm having now a reason to fulfill my curiosity of knowing what MRE tastes like. But I hope this is not the time to do so because I want to eat it with pleasure and not desperation to live :(.

I'd be in two minds about that. If I built up years of food and sustainable supplies I'd be the fattest sitting duck imaginable unless I lived in space. In a mass collapse scenario I think I'd rather go with the same option as nuclear war and let it eat me up rather than spend the hideous aftermath scrabbling for survival.



Never tried one either, but they're only good for about 3-5 years I think. And they're hideously expensive.

If they are not experiencing the disasters and struggle, they will not act and open their mind towards this happenings in our environment.

Famine is not impossible to happen and can happen anytime when people are unaware about the economy and the resources. Governments are also accountable and responsible with that, on how they will handle economy properly. Proper allocations of budget, good decisions, and right platforms are needed in order to prevent famine to occur.

Climate change are expected to happen but we can do something about it.w

It's really a challenge for us when it's about the environment and this also happens because of humans so probably in the coming years, we'll get to see more crisis. And the population is continuously growing which results in more damages to the environment. Science and technology can also help in giving a solution to this, just like GMOs though this doesn't really guarantee a complete solution to hunger, it's still helpful.

Just wanna share this article:

I have tried a few; it really depends on both what you define as "tasty" and the brand. Some of it tastes like shit, even expensive ones.. so purchasing samples before a large order is advisable imo.

There are some that last 7, 10, 15 or even more years. The time they were produced matters a lot though, obviously. Mountain House (https://crisisequipped.com/shop/emergency-food/bulk-buckets/16-serving-family-breakfast-pack/) (apparently switched their name into Crisis Equipped) sells freeze-dried food that lasts up to even 30 years.

To prevent this and have the food last as long as possible, you could purchase canned food or MRE (sometimes canned food is cheaper but I think takes more space) and have a freezer specifically for this purpose. However, keep in mind the following thing:

(source: https://ehealthiq.com/how-long-does-food-last-in-the-freezer/)

Those aren't MREs though. There are places that sell 1 year of food packs for a fortune that are dehydrated/frozen, but they rather conveniently reduce your meals to one a day so by the end of that year you'd be the size of a toothpick. And dead.

As far as I know honey is the one and only eternally lasting source of energy.

Not exactly famine but we are moving towards another economic depression. And to deviate people from it, many nations are trying to wage a war which may lead to another Great war or World war. It's already long overdue. If we go through it undivided, we can easily win over the post pandemic crisis but leaders prefer deviation of priority than actually solving the problem. That would either lead to toppling of government or a war.

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They're so expensive. A single meal ration is pretty much at the price of a meal in a decent restaurant.
I prefer to buy dry pasta, rice and canned sauces because it's cheaper.

I dare to say I could survive a year on pancakes and coffee.

Economic depression, war, crisis -even pandemic- leads to hunger and famine. The world has problems far beyond the pandemic. We as humans can reduce/limit the man activities affecting the world -negatively/harmfully-

People are much adopted to the ongoing market situation. Often more and more number of cryptocurrency users are into existence. During the pandemic bitcoin users haven't suffered big, because of the growth it provided. Once again now people have started to think of famine to attack all around. With bitcoin this can't be managed, people need to be prepared along with the government to produce their own food knowing the future needs.

Corruptors are indeed a big problem for the government because they always spend the state's money and starve their people, but during this pandemic, of course, economic changes are very difficult, war can occur because they maintain their economy, but I am sure that war will not happen again because the government is probably the most solution. the last is that it is owed again to the country that is what makes the economy worse.

We are now seeing the negative impact that the humanities have brought up directly into the nature where we supposedly getting all of our needs for the daily basis. We have totally become abusive on our natural resources and as a result is the showcasing of how those actions is now affecting our surroundings. The advancement of people's lives have brought up making our daily lives got easier but at the same time is having a negative effect on the nature. We must come up into a better and long lasting solution that will resolve the problem we have right now before it gone even worst like famine which this thread have been discussing.

We must used up the advancement to build up greater solutions because if we will not do such, we will just remain on the influence of technology but the nature would be at stake. The climate change is literally affecting us all most specially the nature for the normal cycle of how weather and climate have changed making the nature have a difficulty to adjust and causing the natural phenomenon to happen destructing natural resources.

climate change is a hoax. its not true. if they were really concern about it those countries promoting it should be the be first to have reduced their gas emission but look how much they produced. US and China are the top ones there. and you know why? they know its not true. countries who believe are the ones going to have a slow economy and will not industrialized in the end.

the people in veitnam, cambodia and thailand are eating insects which is a great source of protein. it reproduce faster up to 1000x compare to raising hogs and chickens which is why they do have cricket farms there. i dont think they'd experience famine.  ;D

The problem of global warming remains as acute and urgent as before, despite the fact that now governments are more concerned about the fight against the pandemic, which has made countries unprepared for new (old) threats. After all, it is global warming that affects the climate, which will lead to drought, flooding, crop failure and hurricanes. It is scary to imagine where this will lead, but for poor countries it will be a disaster at all.

Is there any organization that protests for having an anti-climate change group lol. I never knew that there is a person like you who does not believe in climate change. Coz we are literally experiencing it, the nature adjusted itself, our summer is rainy and our rainy days are sunny, just think why it is happening. Even the school year in our country has been adjusted due to this phenomena and you don't believe in climate change? Have you seen the ice caps in northern regions slowly melting? Ever know that there is a small country that will sink in 2 to 3 years from now? Climate change is real mate.

Famine is far from happening, we got a massive food production globally, we haven't seen any signs of famine yet due to the ongoing crisis.

Thanks for bringing this up - I apparently always mistaked one for another. I just found this article (https://www.skilledsurvival.com/freeze-dried-food/) and it certainly is an interesting comparison.

Why do you think the canned food (or dehydrated/frozen one) isn't enough to keep you alive?

Looking over some prices over here in Romania, an NRG-5 MRE pack for one day (2,300 kcal) (https://dryfood.ro/products/nrg-5-aliment-de-urgenta-msi) is worth about 38-45 RON (so let's say about $10) while from only one 11 RON ($2.70) can of food (https://www.mega-image.ro/Ingrediente-culinare/Conserve-cu-mancare-gatita/Fasole/Fasole-cu-ciolan-800g/p/55199) you can get 1,000 kcal already, which means you can get 4,000 kcal for only 44 RON ($10.80).

But again, the big negative side is storage space and probably expiration date as well, unless you freeze that stuff. MREs are, I imagine, waay smaller than a few kgs of canned food. The point I was trying to make is, one can basically get canned stuff for almost half the price of MREs while also hitting the necessary daily calorie count if budget really is an issue.

Carbon dioxide is the life breath of plants and trees, so any increase should improve agriculture.
The decrease in farming output is caused by monoculture farming, bank repossessions of farmland and other financial penalties. and the changes in the use of arable land.

Famine is not only caused by climate change and drought, but also by the greed of some people who exploit all crises, even humanitarian crises. For example, some vegetables and fruits here in my country have risen unreasonably due to the epidemic, such as lemons, apples, and other important materials that people think are necessary to prevent the virus and increase the body's immunity, and they were previously very cheap because they are available in abundance here.
Food storage is not the solution because firstly it costs a lot of money and secondly there are types of foods that cannot be stored for a long time. I hope that humanity can find solutions. The situation will get worse than that, and for me I am optimistic that there will be solutions soon, God willing.

An increase in the Carbon di Oxide concentration may not translate to any sizable gains in the farm output. On the other hand, global warming may result in droughts, climate variations, increase in water loss due to evaporation, desertification.etc. Overall, these factors may nullify any positive impact that comes from the increase in Carbon di Oxide concentration.

The "golden billion" living in the richest countries of the world is already wasting plenty of food.Maybe the reduced agricultural production will simply lower the amounts of food that is thrown away.
I highly doubt that famine will reach the developed countries.The main problem will still be in the underdeveloped countries of the third world.
Climate change can't be reversed so we will have to adapt,in order to survive.
The Apocalypse is coming so we all just have to buy Bitcoins and HODL! ;D

The concern in developed countries is not famine, but ultra-processed foods, and synthetic creations.

Modern life and its reality is what we are feeling today and that is driving towards causing more harm than it is doing good.

We can talk about famine when there are no planting or less of it.

As irrigation has taken over natural way of tilling the soil for produce but with its own effect.

Ozone depletion and global warming etc are all human cause to move away from nature in wanting to better their living.
Can we say these are even the major causes of numerous frequent death in this time in the societies compared to the bible days.

Let us not hope for that worst thing of the famine to come up right into this situation for we are still dealing with a deadly virus. But the reality will never deny that there could be a possibility for that event to make happen all due because the negative effects that human actions are now coming out and as a result the nature is now suffering which can also do affect not just us humans but also the animals that depends on natural resources. No wonder why that thing could happen because the effect of climate change brings a directly negative effect on the nature bringing natural disasters to occur and other related scenarios affecting our surroundings.

We are now seeing how our actions can have a short to long term effect that might get worst if we will not work on planning and executing better solutions to somehow lessen the effect of the climate change.



Too much carbon dioxide concentration on the atmosphere is still not a big help for it can still be deadly because the cycle on the ecosystem must be at a right balance to work things out. It is indeed that farming works have been lessen due to malpractices brought by humans and banks are doing repossession of those hectares of land for the sake of building empires and villages wherein the balance in nature is being at stake and taken for granted.

This lays out just some of the issues we face today.  We are dealing with a number of issues from all sorts of directions currently, and sadly many people are burring their head in the sand.  Global warming is a real thing. Climate change is a real thing.  If it's backed by science we should listen.  The current coronavirus pandemic we are going through is only going to make this famine worse.  We are going to have millions and millions more people becoming jobless/homeless.  The outlooks is bleak right now to say the least. In my opinion anyhow.

It was started already in many places. It is quite to see and heard in the news that many families never eat foods. It is such a thing that this pandemic gets worsen day by day and changes a lot. I'd never thought that we've liked this, we all are unprepared, and the sad thing is that some of us have been in starving especially in the poor countries...It has to say that we are getting back from the start, it is market reset or something we call like that. But it is a little bit unfair seeing those developing countries try to take advantage of the situation, they use this pandemic for making money and those who have less fortunate people will be suffered most while those rich people becoming richer.

But all of these problems and issues, we have also learned a lot of things and one thing is that, to know how to be prepared for the future. 

Your list of links are too long and people might not click them all so it was really better to provide brief summaries from all of them.

Famine was really expected since the effect of pandemics were really bad and it surely affected the Agricultural sector of most countries. Without the movement of Local Government Units surrounding these farms and other agricultural factors that help produce our food, famine will be the outcome. Governments should focus their help in boosting up what gives us our daily needs since food and water is important to everybody.

If famine happens, it would be best to help one another and strive to resolve the problem together instead of battling for survival. It shouldn't be that way. 

This is what happens when people started valuing money more than our environment. This is inevitable when it's all about the industries, manufacturing, and other environmental threats that are offered for the sake of money. As for the recent happenings, like the fire in Australia, heatwaves in Greenland, Flooding in Africa, etc. These effects have been caused by climate change and it's worsening.

For us people, what we could do is reduce waste or organize your waste in order for easier recycling. Convert to renewable energy resources for a brighter future. Come on, what else can we do with it?

Take for example China, every food right now is processed and even synthetic because of the growing population and even their government try to control it, gonna be hurt to curb. Like this plastic rice:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/plastic-rice-from-china/

If not the virus, then hunger might kill majority of the world's population.

I think one of the most humane solutions to prevent a cancer ridden body from dying is to get the cancer cells to stop behaving abnormally and gradually killing the whole body. Unfortunately, many of the cells still do not believe or understand that they are massively contributing to the death of the body. They continue to replicate, grow and live abnormally.

Famine is...coming? Where are you from? Right now there are 7 nations in the world that is having trouble with food, either because of political reasons or because of natural disaster reasons, we are already there and you think that it is just starting up or it is not even started but "will" start? Obviously it is not a global pandemic type of world changing situation right now because only handful of nations have it right now, but I can tell you that with the climate change and a lot more places being under water soon and rest being very dry, even clean water will be a luxury one day unless we do something about it.

Obviously there are some people who still deny the scientifically proven facts, but we can't just let the earth get destroyed because of idiots.

i'm a conspiracy theorist as they call me being a flat earth believer  ;D but all the people who didn't believe me now look like this:

https://i.imgur.com/TxkcElw.jpg

the ice caps once had melted in the past that is why there are ancient antarctica maps which there are actually inhabitants of that region back when it wasn't full of ice.  this climate change is just the natural cycle of earth.  that part of earth right now isn't reached by sunlight.

if china and US bomb send nukes to each other, the clouds will darken and all sun will not touch the earth surface oceans gonna crystallize like the ones in the antartica.  ;D

Antarctica was fully covered with ice and with no vegetation left around 15 million years ago, there were no homo sapiens at that time, the only inhabitants were the ancestors of penguins.  ;D


Oh really? So there is no light in Antarctica? [urlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun]Surprise[/url] and surprise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQlr366eels)!


The earth survived through a lot of far worse things than what we're doing, even with all that humans throw at it, it survived a hit 100 billion times more powerful than a nuclear blast, it will keep on living. That aside, we as a species might not be that lucky  ;D

If the government does not move quickly to deal with the economic crisis. The fear is that there is hunger everywhere,
therefore I don't blame some countries for providing stimulus to people affected by COVID-19.By printing money, although
there will be an negative effect in the future. However, it must be admitted that the government currently does not have
many choices.

Human greed to mine and exploitation on a large scale which causes the world's eco-system to change rapidly, this can be seen from the development of the unpredictable seasons when the rainy season, when is spring, when the music is dry.

this has indicated that the emptiness of nature plundered by humans without considering being able to restore nature again. The covid-19 outbreak is one of the pandemics that may occur because of deviant behavior.

We hope that there has been an awareness that the earth also needs human touch in a good way so that there are reciprocal, hopefully the covid-19 outbreak will not cause many countries to experience a new outbreak, namely hunger.

Indeed. I guess the government of every nations right now are on the verge of checkmate. If they borrowed money from powerful countries, the national debt will rise; if they print more money, inflation is expected; if they will solely rely on their resources and capabilities then they may not fixed the problem or have a slow progress at least tsk :-\. That's why we can't put all the blame on them. Yeah it's their obligation to give solution in this problem but it doesn't necessarily mean that we will just sit back and relax and the worse is throwing tons of complaints in social media (I really hate that kind of people). No one wants this pandemic so let's help and cooperate.

If you have fear of famine then start producing your own food by growing livestock, planting crops and vegetables. Food shortages would not be an issue if people just know how to produce their own food, the problem now is we are so dependent with the market and grocery stores we are even not bothered if its produced artificially or we have zero knowledge at all.

well I agree, just as humans are trapped in a deep pit, are they going to stay there without doing anything?
Of course not, humans will live no matter how we have faced various kinds of crises and things that were impossible in the past but are materializing now.
there are countless examples, and what the OP said was only a fraction of the total.

I guess its payback time.. There were lot people who has a lot before the pandemic started but spends and spends their money without checking if its necessity or leisure... they have not prepare for saving up some for times like this... And know they realized their expenses before the pandemic happens..too bad its already late to realized this.. But what tgey can do is make things right... earn something to save up as long as youre doing good thing and never abuse anyone. Atleast God will pour some little help.

Humans are forced to move away from nature because their population is constantly increasing. As of now, the human population stands at 8 billion. Nature can't feed this many people. That's why we are forced to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, in order to improve the productivity of the land. Now there is no going back, unless we are able to reduce our population.

This is the price of industrial revolution, we did not address this issue when our scientist started to warn us about this coming catastrophe and now it's almost late, so many iceberg are melting down soon there will be flash flood everywhere we have seen a lot of tsunamis and tidal waves
and this decade is very much different from all the previous that we have.

I spoke to a friend the other day and he reckons that we are seeing the "End of Times" as he describe it. He is also one of the people who repeats the same doomsday prophecy, every time when there are some kind of catastrophe.

Yes, in Biblical times.. prophecies was made that predicted many of the catastrophe scenarios that we are experiencing now, but nature has a way to heal it self and we see this "balancing" reaction, when there is some factors that are introduced to tip the balance. (Some animals adapted to the change and/or nature went into a cycle to repair the damage.

This virus pandemic, might just be nature's way to "balance" the burden that humans are placing on it's natural resources.  ;) (Just look what happened when restrictions were implemented... oceans was cleaner and some animals even walked around in cities)  :D

Rich people never spend money on something which is costly for them, if they do then they are just pretends to b rich. People own hard assets are rich by now but the one who owned stocks lost a lot but many used it as an opportunity to  make more profits by getting the shares for cheaper than ever.Never blame God, its their responsibility to hange their life if they want to come up or else they will become poor forever.

Every year we are visited by famines it become a part of our seasons, typhoons are more stronger and dry season are longer than it were than 2 decades ago, our government is spending a lot of money from this natural calamities, this is the reason why our government cannot sustain our other program because huge funds are allocated for calamities and famines.

That could be without a doubt a factor but to me the most important factors are overpopulation and overexploitation, the world as big as it is is not infinite and yet we are using resources at an incredible rate for things that quite honestly are not bringing us too much of a benefit or none at all in the name of just getting a little bit of profits.

Basically we are using the resources of the planet only thinking in the short term benefit this will bring without thinking on the long term disaster this will cause for future generations, and if I am honest I do not see a way to change this as most people do not care about it and will only care once they have the problem face to face and at that time it will be too late to do anything.

This is kind of situation is sad because the money that ought to be spend on something that will give citizens betterment are reserved for calamities and famines but i think the government need to empower alot of people that could assist them or help their community when famine happen.

I fear that before famine comes, the lack of water will come. You may think that the world is mostly water but almost all of that is salt water that is not drinkable, I am telling you this as a person who had to drink sea water for 3 days because there was no other water around me and I can tell you that it really hurts after a while, the first day is usually okay but around noon of second day you start to feel that even your tongue gets bigger and can't fit in your mouth and on third day I didn't even want to drink anymore, I knew it was my last day so I wanted to just get thirsty and stay thirsty instead of drinking salt water.

When all the good clean drinkable waters stop, it is going to be a huge challenge to make sure all those oceans can be turned into drinkable water, possible with tech we have but it is also impossible to do it for everyone in the world with how much infrastructure needed.

This is a serious matter, I had thought the change in climate was only in some parts of Africa, it has been a big time concern to farmers, crop yield is so poor, only farmers who can afford irrigation are striving and how many could afford it here, in this status quo that people are still struggling to survive, after escaping COVID 19, will cost of feeding still add to what people are going through? We really need divine intervention.

Climate change is happening, the cause of climate change is largely caused by humans. Companies, multinational corporations, and the history of the industrial revolution have seriously devastated the environment. Hunger can be overcome by using crop technology to increase yields, but that only happens in developed countries. Poor countries will have to bear the consequences themselves because they do not have the technology or any methods to increase food productivity.
We are destroying the earth and the environment on our own. Climate change won't stop if we don't know how to protect the environment.

We must realize that natural laws occur almost every year like a disaster or anything that can harm humans, as happened in several countries that are experiencing this pandemic.
and many people are starving and losing their jobs or livelihoods due to this pandemic and this is a serious problem for the government which must be taken seriously, because many people have died of hunger or have other diseases and all are considered infected with the virus.
As in the country where I live, the number of deaths is increasing due to starvation due to lack of income or not being able to make ends meet due to government regulations that make it difficult for them.

In the face of an increasing population, we do not have enough land to live and cultivate. Nature is constantly changing, grasshoppers, pests develop, crops cannot yield as well as before.
To overcome famine, each country should change its diet to be more suitable. European countries have now reduced meat in their diets and added more grains. They don't use bread more often and instead use rice. I think that science and technology will change and there will be many new cultivars and new breeds of livestock with higher productivity and quality.

Even before this pandemic happened, some countries are already experiencing acute hunger like Africa, Afghanistan, Sudan, Venezuela, and Yemen. And now that we’re in the middle of pandemic, most of these countries hunger issues have worsen and was predicted to  experience famine this year.

We’re aware that overpopulation is an issue that needs to be addressed as well. Some countries resources are very limited compared to others, hence limiting food distribution to most areas especially to the far away lands. The people from the province and isolated islands tend to be malnourished because of lack of food and clean water.

In addition, climate change is contributing a lot of problem to the agriculture industry. Because of climate change, the seasons of harvest changed for some crops and it even brought stronger typhoons that destroy the farmlands.

Maybe we aren’t experiencing famine at the moment, but it’s better to be prepared when the time comes. Whether you like to admit it or not, most places are already suffering from it. Now is the time to use sustainable methods and techniques. We must not rely to other countries commodities and instead cultivate, produce, and support our own.

The extended shortage of toilet paper was caused by a sudden shift in consumer demand. The country didn’t suddenly start using more, it’s just the place where demand originated changed. Production capacity is more than adequate, but it was split between industrial production and personal production (i.e., work and home). When offices and businesses suddenly didn’t need the industrial production anymore, producers had to shift production to meet the i teases home consumption. That takes time, the supply chains are large. But things have reached an equilibrium again.

As it goes for food production, we’re not really reliant on the rest of the world, so there’s no concern there. The US produces enough to feed itself and is a net exporter of foodstuffs.

I agree with this point. We will not be hungry and troubled if we become a self-sufficient nation and work together in mutual cooperation. Not being a crybaby nation that complains and preys on one another for the sake of selfishness.

Nature ask for justice for what people have done to it. This global warming was the effect from people's abused to the environment. With this pandemia happened this time, I have noticed the peaceful environment thus making the mother earth to recover from distruction. No pollution in the streets and no busy noise around. Maybe we need to take good care of our mother earth and we will be saved from this global warming.

I do agree with the 1st statement, people suddenly panicked to buy products that they thought they would need to survive the 1st part of the pandemic that results to overshopping of products they think that they need to stock as soon as the pandemic starts, needlessly thinking that most of the people in the country are in the same shoe. thus leading to shortage of products such as toilet papers, and soaps.

as for the 2nd part, I do not really agree for before, the US can produce enough to feed itself, but given that the world is in the state of pandemic, and US currently has 2.5 million active cases, the productivity of farms is affected by the virus, and the fear that the pandemic gives is really alarming. Though we can say that US will last for a period of time but will scarce if the pandemic continues.

But not all of us would be able to do that.

Without the help of other people, some of us can't stand with us. Some are not just crybabies that you would just call while you never know the reason for that cries. They are working hard, it is just that the system is not about pushing them up as they go, if they don't force their way in they will just be beaten up until they can't go.

Many are alarmed by the news of the famine but if the epidemic continues it could increase but many countries around the world are already taking steps to cure the virus. The United States is helping people affected by the China virus but nothing is being done about it as the world struggles with the Corona epidemic one death after another the United Nations warns of a more dire situation ahead. This warning is going to be more tragic than the Corona epidemic there is a terrible famine waiting for the end of the corona virus epidemic food shortage has started in a large part of the world Soon it will take the shape of famine Famine has already started in some areas.

Famine has been experienced by so many poor families already for quite some time so it is not coming next because it is happening already.
Its just that we are all focusing on the virus itself that we forgot the other things that can happen to other people like famine.
I've seen some families here in our country that are begging in the streets already just to have some money to use to have their daily meals. I found it unfortunate for them but I know that there will be a time that this will end but there will be casualties above it.

For sure many people are doing it already but I already have the feeling that some of the families can't even afford to buy some MRE's. Feel sad for them :(.

People have a lot of problems, primarily because of the government. I do not want to take African countries as an example, but you can pay attention to Cuba, which has all the resources to provide for the people, but the government practically itself pursues a policy where people are slaves and receive a salary of no more than $ 20. For them, simple foods such as milk or potatoes are an expensive delicacy that cannot be bought anywhere. At the same time, other products are received by cards. In addition, one must take into account the fact that even in the countries of central Europe, where food is not so difficult, due to climate change it is more and more difficult to grow crops and obtain animal products. Today we are not only facing problems due to the coronavirus pandemic, but we are also facing modern challenges of a more global scale.

This ignores how much food waste there is already in the United States. We’re nowhere close to starving. Not being able to get the type of meat you want is not the same as not having enough food to survive. People are inconvenienced by the disruptions to the food supply. Nobody is in danger of going hungry for lack of food. Out of necessity, there’s a lot of efficiency to be wrought out of the current system before a danger of hunger is even seen on the horizon.

If a shortage of water comes then a famine will not be very far away, after all agriculture takes a great deal of our water in order to get crops to feed the world, and even if the world is full of water most of it is not fit for human consumption and even if we had plants that can remove the salt from the water that water will be very expensive and most likely will only be used by those that are rich.

If you ask me I think we are on the verge of several crises and it doesn't matter that much which one comes first at the end most of those crises will end up happening at the same time.

Let’s hope that technology improves a lot enough to make sure agriculture can grow vertical farming to a whole new level. They are building that system a lot in Japan because they do not have too much space and with all the money they make from the tech improvements and sales they make, they probably spend a ton of it on the food export market because they need to get a lot of stuff, they are lucky china is nearby and would sell for cheap but I am not sure what their relationship is like nowadays.

So, if there is a method where vertical farming could make enough food for a whole town inside one building, we could have those in the middle of every town so that we could dish out food to everyone who wants it, end of the starvation problem basically.

There's a lot of people who don't believe in the said pandemic, that they quote "It is a way of the government to subjugate their freedom". This kind of people tend to do things in a lot in different ways other than what is needed to be done. therefore food waste will still exist even though we're in pandemic.

As for the scarcity of food supply, it MAY exist if the pandemic continues for a long period of time where the supplies will decline as the demand increases. People with below-average income may not be able to afford enough foods to feed their families thus results to hunger. This situation is if and only if the PANDEMIC CONTINUES FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

If every individual unites into a community working together for the common good, there will not be a cry of hunger. a centrally controlled system will have no effect if all the individuals working together will become strong communal.

I don't blame it on covid but yes covid coul prove to be a like fuel to this fire. If there is a big famine we will be having a crash just like 1929 great depression which most of the economist have actually warned about. But I don't think this sort of famine would harm the whole world today most of the countries have tried to become agri self sufficient there are a very few major countries which are entirely dependent on other countries for staple diet.

I don't want to sound rude or anyway want to sound negative but this sort of thing is actually good for BTC as it will realy show peolle how worthless can fiat be. Moreover we have seen btc prices shooting up in times of anarchy so this may be a case.

Building communalism and working together to create egalitarian societies is a good idea and I think the best way to destroy hunger. everyone will work and get what they need. but it was never done and even considered a utopia.

In order to make this go away and figure out a way to feed the whole world even after the big climate change causes, I would say that we need to change the way we take a look at how we do farming, obviously vertical farming will be the way to go for something like this because we want to produce as much food as we can from as limited amount of space as we can while using as little things as we can but we need to make sure we know about logistics as well, it is not going to be easy.

Moreover, famine is one thing but we will also not have too much clean water, that is the real scary part, think about a world where it is highly difficult to find water to drink, that is not something we can assume easily because we can drink water everywhere we go right? But think of having water rationing in the future, that could be a possibility if we do nothing about it.

Agricultural technology we use today is highly advanced to the point that we can create artificial crops which we can mutate for more nutrients. But still organic nutrients are way cheaper, this is the number one enemy of having a technology the cost of it is too much for anyone to handle.

You can't end starvation and hunger, it has been the very problem since the beginning though we got enough of a food supply anyone cannot still just have it without the power of money. However, I don't see that famine is on the way after all these disasters that we are experiencing.

Hunger and food shortages occur, not because the earth is overpopulated, but more because of human greed and a lack of desire to share. Natural resources and minerals around the world are distributed unevenly, each region in the world has its own advantages and disadvantages. There should be an awareness and responsibility that the natural resources in an area are essentially the property of all human beings on earth, and that the regional or state government has the right to manage them. Supposedly the common ground used in activities should complement each other's deficiencies. But what exists today is based on exploitation and oppression. How can we sleep comfortably and peacefully with mounting savings in the bank, but many of our brothers are starving and chopping their stomachs with stones.

The economic system of capitalism is an economic system that provides the widest possible freedom to individuals in economic activity. The principle of the economic system of capitalism is how individuals can get the maximum benefit. So, in this economic system, individuals have the freedom to apply their creativity in trade, industry, and means of production. Human nature combined with the economic system of capitalism makes exploitation of natural resources which leads to the destruction of the earth and ecosystems only to pursue profit.

This is the first time I have ever heard of vertical farming and without a doubt it can help resolve the problem of space that countries may have when it comes to farming but there are many more problems that cannot be solved like that, the first problem is the soil itself, not all land has the necessary nutrients to let stuff grow and the soil that has those nutrients has been overexploited for centuries now.

The second problem is the water, fresh waster is becoming more scarce around the world and it is speculated that conflicts in the future will be not for oil but for this precious liquid we all need to live.

All I can say is, this is really possible if this pandemic continuously spreading all over the world. As of the moment here in our country, more starving people can be seen anywhere. And what more in the coming days and months that this covid-19 crisis got worst everyday? We don't even know how long will it takes for us to suffer.
However, aside from this pandemic there are lots of factors that causes this scarcity of foods. Most likely are: inflation, crop failure, population imbalance and Government policies.
This factors really affects the economy of a country, especially those who only have limited resources. Its not easy for the Government to give aid an over populated community with only just a small budget in their hands. That is why our Government had lent money to the world bank as additional funds for the people who need most assistance in any forms. But still this additional budget is not enough for a most populous Country, and its because of the endless corruption of some leaders that made the situation got worst.

There are natural things that can lead to drought taking place, apart from that some people from the comment has listed civilization as one of the causes, which I am not really sure of, but I think that the best we can be doing to help ourselves is to make sure we are collecting and storing water properly as we should, because if we keep on wasting water, like in excessive irrigation and things like that, we are going to be ending up in situations like these where we will be in strong need of water.

Well, one thing for sure is that if one country is experiencing drought and they don’t have food, they can still be able to import from other countries.

Yeah, but those people are - to put it mildly - wrong.  Nobody created the virus to subjugate people.  They don't need a virus to do that, it doesn't make any sense.  It's easier to subjugate people the normal way. 

Just because we're in a pandemic doesn't mean food demand increases.  Food demand stays stable relative to population.  So the threat of food shortages comes from the supply side.  It's a non-zero risk, sure, but not a serious risk by any means.  There is enough of a social safety net to prevent wide-scale hunger in the US. 

I hope that these articles are dramatizing the situation. But now I'm even more convinced that more people will die form the economic impact of Covid than from the virus itself.

Famine will not be actual in first world countries, im sure. Anyway, it's nothing more than fud news right now. Don't see any signs or real famine right now

That would be really beautiful.

But let's be honest, with what is happening right now, I don't think all of the people would be accepting that way. Usually, if a family could just live by themselves, they won't bother helping others because the most important for them is to save themselves. If other poeple are struggling to get some food, it is not their problem.

Famine can happen any where, from first world nation, to third world nation, although famine will be felt in many third world nation, some are facing severe famine already, agriculture is dropping in third world nation that should be harnessing it, they are interested in precious stones, diamond and petroleum, and if petroleum excesses/mis-handling can affect nature life, land and sea.

Many people do not care that they will be independent in their own way or with their own families, so individual communities rarely occur because division must have hunger for sure if they cannot unite, but still if they believe in a matter of conviction then maybe they can still survive and will continue to seek without affecting centrally with the community.

It might not be famine but they are also affected by this pandemic. It would be other things like unemployment, every country would be affected and doesn't mean you can't see it there doesn't mean it is not happening. Just imagine those people that doesn't have anything before the pandemic, what do you is happening at them right now.

everything is affected by this crisis because the world suffers the hardest days for more than 60 years .

This pandemic teach the whole world of what is investing is all about,that if we only foreseen this situation then maybe all of us had saved Money so there are no Hungry people that asking for help and assistance.

and expect this to come back in shape after the Vaccine injected to every single infected person.

Not everyone on first world countries are invulnerable from famine. Not everyone is rich. Well if you haven't seen any signs of famine right now, you probably is at place that has good economy.

This pandemic caused a lot of people to give up their jobs to stay on their homes. Also there arer families that doesn't have enough food supply. That's one of the signs  of famine.

In developed nations, most of the people do have considerable savings or pension deposits. This should enable them to survive for a few months (but not for an indefinite period). Things are not that great in developing nations such as India. Here, very few do have any savings and every now and then I am hearing tragic stories about starvation deaths. We are close to the breaking point.

I don't know if that is true but I've been seeing some posts about families in India committing suicide, some with their family because of starvation. It is just that bad this year, I hope you people would continue to hold hands and help each other during this pandemic. What we can do now is to keep ourselves steady and keep pushing forward. If we can we help other people stand up

Nah, I don't think so. Actually, I am living here in the province and not yet experiencing famine. However, our country's national debt continue to bloat. It doesn't mean you have a strong and sustainable economy just because you are not experiencing famine. We are. What I only think is happening is that people here only knows how to live even without any form of luxurious stuff. We can live even without going to malls and fancy restaurants,  not ordering expensive foods because fish and vegies were already enough. In short, we are able to survive because we are contented of having a simple life compared to urban areas :).

Shimmiry, I supported what you said because people in the first world countries are always after modern business/work and if such countries hit by famine they will be unprotected because the rate of people into agribusiness is not enough to sustain the country.

NavI_027, the area where people take farming as a top priority can easily survive any famine conditions and I believe most people from your area are into farming but been content cant be enough to skip through the famine.

It would be awful that while we are still dealing into a serious threat concerning our health is that we are also experiencing the serious effect of climate change that may arise at this point of time because actually here in our country, the cycle of have already changed because supposedly at this period, we are already experiencing a cold weather but what we have is a very hot weather which is really very unusual thing. We all know that we are already facing the consequence of our human act for not taking good care of our nature but still let us just hope that famine won't come at this time for many people are already suffering on hunger due to loss of job because of the pandemic. May this world have a little mercy on us not to let that happen. Let us just hope for the best things and do not hope for worse things to come like famine because we are not yet through dealing with this pandemic.

There are things that happens in this world that are completely out of our control, but based on my observation, whatever it is that happens, humans are always able to get through it and keep living. There are lots of things that I have seen happen, and it always surprises me how when it happens people still survive it.

I don’t wish for a famine to happen, but if it does happen we are still going to get through it. But anyone who is aware of this, it will be good for them if they start looking for ways they can provide food for themselves and their families in such a situation.

If this covid-19 crisis will not be controlled, it will continue to destroy the humankind and the world's economy. I guess, this will really happen if we can't find the cure/the vaccine to end this battle. Poverty in different sides of the world, grows higher and its really sad to think that a lot of people are  starving. We just pray it will never go that far and this world's craziness will be over soonest.

Plenty of politicians undermining any effort to control the spread of the virus. They're almost always conservatives.  The anti-science politicians need to be voted out of office if the world has any chance of containing this thing. Suffering these fools helps nobody.

The more technology develops, the more productive we develop, the better varieties of wheat, corn, and rice we will have. In breeding, we have more breeds of pigs and cows for better productivity.
There is currently no data showing that we will have famine in the future. The COVID 19 epidemic did not affect much agriculture. Some people lose money in aquaculture but they will soon return to the crop because they know that human needs are always increasing.

Famine isn't gonna strike by now, but based on the difference on governance over every country there is possible chances of famine. During this lockdown there is change in climate, and this improves the development of agriculture. By now famine can happen only out of corruption.

starting from growing a sense of care, caring for the environment as a provider of food sources, and then eliminating greed by sharing with fellow humans. because many people are full while those around them are still hungry

Climate change is occurring for the last few decades. It didn't happened as a result of the lockdown. And impact of climate change is increasing with every passing year, as we are seeing droughts in certain parts of the world and floods in some other parts more frequently. No one really want to take care of the real reason behind it. Human population is at unsustainable levels, and it is still growing at a rate of 100 million per year. Unless the population growth slows down, famines and other natural disasters will continue to torment the globe.   

There is not a chance in famine coming after the Corona Virus.  This is enough with the scary tactics on us. 
I am still waiting patiently for those killer hornets that were going to kill everyone.
 

Right now my country is still in the dry season, so agricultural land and plantations are experiencing drought. But fortunately
the stock of food was still abundant, so there shouldn't be any famine. The problem with the spread of the corona virus is
increasing in my country, this has made the government take firm action, by reinstating quarantine. So many small entrepreneurs
have to close their businesses, and many employees are laid off from work. As a result, some people have no income. This is
the main cause of hunger, because many people don't have the money to buy food. Hopefully the government can find a solution
to overcome this problem, if left for too long, it could result in the number of crimes increasing and the possibility of someone
dying of starvation.

Greed lowers people a lot the foremost affected are the helpless and poor people of the society. Corruption stands within the way of everything terrible famine is coming to the planet if it can't be cured. many people will starve to death the entire humanity is within the face of a catastrophe. therein case the speed of food production must be increased by preventing corruption.