I just might have to start prepping. I mentioned it during last night’s Richie Allen Show. The response was swift. You’re prepping. It looks like you’re right to be. The head of the World Food Programme has announced that the war in Ukraine is going to be “hell on Earth for food prices.
According to the BBC:
The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, has warned the conflict in Ukraine could send global food prices soaring, with a catastrophic impact on the world’s poorest.
Ukraine and Russia are both major exporters of basic foodstuffs, and the war has already hit crop production, driving up prices
Mr Beasley said it was putting more people at risk of starvation worldwide.
“Just when you think hell on earth can’t get any worse, it does,” he said.
Russia and Ukraine, once dubbed “the breadbasket of Europe”, export about a quarter of the world’s wheat and half of its sunflower products, like seeds and oil. Ukraine also sells a lot of corn globally.
Analysts have warned that war could impact the production of grains and even double global wheat prices.
Mr Beasley told BBC World Service’s Business Daily programme that the number of people facing potential starvation worldwide had already risen from 80 million to 276 million in four years prior to Russia’s invasion, due to what he calls a “perfect storm” of conflict, climate change and coronavirus.
He said certain countries could be particularly affected by the current crisis, due to the high proportion of grains they currently import from the Black Sea region.
I wonder if Beasley has considered that his “perfect storm” of Covid, conflict and climate change are in fact artificial crises, dreamt up by madmen to reshape and remake our world?
Let’s talk all things prepping on Wednesday’s Richie Allen Show. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.
