Hygro
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Global food runs, but for some far fetched reason it’s within country by country and not country vs country. Half the people can be fed with careful distribution. How does your country fracture?
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Zardnaar
Deity
Huh translation?
Hygro
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A “run” or “panic” is when scarcity causes more people to attempt to acquire the scarce food than is available.
You talking about the baby milk formula shortages?
Anytime there is snow forecast for more than a few days here in Ireland there is a run on bread.
The country splits between those who pay attention to weather forecasts and buy some extra when they see it and those who wander around the bread aisle wondering where the bread is and what is going on.
Anytime there is snow forecast for more than a few days here in Ireland there is a run on bread.
The country splits between those who pay attention to weather forecasts and buy some extra when they see it and those who wander around the bread aisle wondering where the bread is and what is going on.
Snowygerry
Deity
Fridge empty - need to go for a food run ?
Things must be bad in California
Things must be bad in California
Badly. Every society is three meals away from chaos - Vladimir Lenin
If it really gets to the point that there are not enough calories in the country for everyone to survive then there will be violence. I wonder if the rich have enough capacity for violence that they do not get eaten by the poor, but who really knows.
If it really gets to the point that there are not enough calories in the country for everyone to survive then there will be violence. I wonder if the rich have enough capacity for violence that they do not get eaten by the poor, but who really knows.
Snowygerry
Deity
This is not going to be a fun thread is it ?
Just saw the neighbours ride by on their bicycle - they're probably out looting,
I'm going to have a shower and see what's left
Just saw the neighbours ride by on their bicycle - they're probably out looting,
I'm going to have a shower and see what's left
Zardnaar
Deity
Hmmnn not realistic scenario here but would likely fracture north island/south Island.
Presumably some areas would have food others wouldn't.
Presumably some areas would have food others wouldn't.
Hygro
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First answer: a north south split.
definitely not a realistic scenario, just asking how you wonder your country might fracture in a scarcity great enough to undermine the nation from within
I've had no trouble finding Meijer formula. I think it's only certain brands that have a shortage?
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
It can vary by area, and even by store.
I found it is listed as 'limited stock' on the website of a store in Illinois.
If one brand is sold out, many will grab another brand, then supplies of that other brand start running out because it's selling way more than normal. Not all stores have the same amount of choices.
Start of pandemic with toilet paper and other shortages, walmart would be sold out of x product, but the store across the street (that only gets about 1/10 the customers, and is a little higher priced on most stuff) had all kinds of stuff in stock. Eventually the Walmart shoppers got desperate and started going to that store to get what they couldn't get at walmart.
thetrooper
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Rich and poor indeed. And then the poor eat the rich.
How rich is rich? "Kinda well-off" isn't bad, right?
Sri Lanka food crisis ‘man-made’
Mahinda Samarawickrema, 49, will not be planting paddy this season.
After a government ban on chemical fertilisers cut his rice yield in half during the March harvest, the farmer, who owns eight hectares (20 acres) of paddy and banana, said he no longer has the income to maintain a farm. Especially as his banana crop also looks set to fail.
“It’s a total loss,” the father of five said in mid-April, standing in a field of stunted banana trees in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota district. “When I look at this, I know I cannot get the usual yield.”
By this time of the year, most of Samarawickrema’s trees should be twice their height and in bloom, but only a few of the 1,300 trees in the weed-strewn fields have any flowers. The famer says he used to get up to 37,000kg (81,571 pounds) of bananas a year, but this time, he expects only 6,000kg (13,228 pounds).
The Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR), a non-government organisation, says most smallholder farmers in the surrounding Hambantota district, and in key agricultural regions in the north, such as Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts, are also halting operations this season.
That could leave Sri Lanka, which is already grappling with shortages of imported foodstuffs amid its worst-ever economic crisis, facing widespread shortages of domestically grown and produced food, too.
An island nation of 22 million people, Sri Lanka used to be self-sufficient in food.
But President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s drive to make the country the world’s first to fully adopt organic agriculture – by banning all synthetic agrochemicals, including fertilisers and pesticides – has proved disastrous for Sri Lanka’s food security. Sold as a bid to improve soil health and tackle a mysterious kidney disease among farmers that is believed to be linked to excessive nitrate exposure, the ban was imposed overnight in May of last year.
The country’s 2 million farmers, who make up 30 percent of its labour force and who until then were dependent on subsidised chemical fertilisers, suddenly found themselves left to their own devices. They said the government neither increased production of organic fertiliser nor imported sufficient soil nutrients to meet their needs.
The result has been a dramatic fall in agricultural output during the growing season that ended in March, known locally as the Maha season.
Official figures are not yet available for the Maha harvest, but experts estimate a drop of between 20 to 70 percent, depending on the crop.
For rice, a staple of the Sri Lankan diet, output fell by between 40 and 50 percent nationwide during Maha, according to estimates. The drop has resulted in the island nation importing some 300,000 metric tonnes of rice in the first three months of the year – a sharp rise compared with the 14,000 metric tonnes it imported in 2020.
Food inflation, which is currently hovering at about 30 percent, could rise even further.
After a government ban on chemical fertilisers cut his rice yield in half during the March harvest, the farmer, who owns eight hectares (20 acres) of paddy and banana, said he no longer has the income to maintain a farm. Especially as his banana crop also looks set to fail.
“It’s a total loss,” the father of five said in mid-April, standing in a field of stunted banana trees in Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota district. “When I look at this, I know I cannot get the usual yield.”
By this time of the year, most of Samarawickrema’s trees should be twice their height and in bloom, but only a few of the 1,300 trees in the weed-strewn fields have any flowers. The famer says he used to get up to 37,000kg (81,571 pounds) of bananas a year, but this time, he expects only 6,000kg (13,228 pounds).
The Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR), a non-government organisation, says most smallholder farmers in the surrounding Hambantota district, and in key agricultural regions in the north, such as Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts, are also halting operations this season.
That could leave Sri Lanka, which is already grappling with shortages of imported foodstuffs amid its worst-ever economic crisis, facing widespread shortages of domestically grown and produced food, too.
An island nation of 22 million people, Sri Lanka used to be self-sufficient in food.
But President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s drive to make the country the world’s first to fully adopt organic agriculture – by banning all synthetic agrochemicals, including fertilisers and pesticides – has proved disastrous for Sri Lanka’s food security. Sold as a bid to improve soil health and tackle a mysterious kidney disease among farmers that is believed to be linked to excessive nitrate exposure, the ban was imposed overnight in May of last year.
The country’s 2 million farmers, who make up 30 percent of its labour force and who until then were dependent on subsidised chemical fertilisers, suddenly found themselves left to their own devices. They said the government neither increased production of organic fertiliser nor imported sufficient soil nutrients to meet their needs.
The result has been a dramatic fall in agricultural output during the growing season that ended in March, known locally as the Maha season.
Official figures are not yet available for the Maha harvest, but experts estimate a drop of between 20 to 70 percent, depending on the crop.
For rice, a staple of the Sri Lankan diet, output fell by between 40 and 50 percent nationwide during Maha, according to estimates. The drop has resulted in the island nation importing some 300,000 metric tonnes of rice in the first three months of the year – a sharp rise compared with the 14,000 metric tonnes it imported in 2020.
Food inflation, which is currently hovering at about 30 percent, could rise even further.
Hygro
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What kind of psycho would order an overnight mandate like that?
Moff Jerjerrod
Deity
Supply chain mixups, labor shortages, war, bad weather, there are a lot of contributing factors to a potential world wide famine.
I believe that no matter which area of the world a shortage of food is occurring either you will have docile humans too weak from hunger to do much about it and just starve to death or those who still have strength will attempt to preserve that strength using all options on the table.
There is no rich or poor, only strong and weak. I pray that the world will avoid global food shortages.
In the meantime try to stock up on extra food and if you can find a safe hiding place for it somewhere. Only eat it when no one is around to see you or they will kill you for the food.
I'm not trying to scare anyone, but to warn you to start preparing now.
I believe that no matter which area of the world a shortage of food is occurring either you will have docile humans too weak from hunger to do much about it and just starve to death or those who still have strength will attempt to preserve that strength using all options on the table.
There is no rich or poor, only strong and weak. I pray that the world will avoid global food shortages.
In the meantime try to stock up on extra food and if you can find a safe hiding place for it somewhere. Only eat it when no one is around to see you or they will kill you for the food.
I'm not trying to scare anyone, but to warn you to start preparing now.
Lexicus
Deity
Sometimes I make food runs to McDonalds in the late night
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