(Natural News) David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations’ (UN) World Food Program (WFP), recently said that the global food crisis has gotten so bad that the WFP has had no choice but to take food aid from countries with already limited resources to provide for those that are on the brink of famine. Beasley made these […]

(Natural News) Global grain shortages, the rising cost of importing fuel and export bans on food have led to a surge in domestic food prices and the risk of food shortages for the South Asian nation of Bhutan. Bhutan, a tiny landlocked country sandwiched between India and China and with a population of less than 800,000, […]

(Natural News) The Kremlin claims that sanctions imposed by the West as punishment for the Russia-Ukraine war are to blame for the global food crisis. The conflict and the sanctions on Russia that followed have sent prices of cooking oil, grains and fertilizer skyrocketing. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on May 23: “We are […]

(Natural News) Kansas City wheat prices set record highs on May 17, surpassing the highs registered in 2008. The rally has been pushed by global and domestic production issues, with winter wheat crop ratings in the U.S. pegged at 27 percent G/E the week prior – the lowest since the 1989 drought. According to reports, the U.S. season-average farm price […]

(Natural News) Host Dunagun Kaiser and guest Joel Salatin discussed the possibility of having food insurance policies in the U.S. during the May 22 episode of “Liberty and Finance.” “These are concerning times and people need to be paying attention to where their food is coming from,” Kaiser said. Salatin, on the other hand, noted that […]

(Natural News) Ukraine recently reported an alarming decrease in grain exports, with the government in Kyiv laying the blame for the considerably smaller export total on problems caused by the Russian invasion. Last year, Ukraine was the world’s seventh largest producer and fifth largest exporter of wheat, accounting for around 10 percent of global wheat exports. Ukraine […]

(Natural News) David Beasley, the current head of the United Nations World Food Programme, is warning that a perfect storm of global economic collapse is rapidly forming. Extreme weather, war, the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), and financial failure are all simultaneously setting the stage for a “war-fueled” crisis of biblical proportions. “If people can’t feed their […]

(Natural News) Global food prices are nearing record highs as disruptions to food exports exacerbate tight supplies and further stoke inflation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the severe Western-led economic sanctions placed upon the former have reduced exports to a trickle. This has massively curbed supplies of agricultural products, notably grain and vegetable oil and fertilizer. (Related: […]

(Natural News) Multiple countries are rushing to increase their agricultural output to make up for the disappearance of Russian and Ukrainian agricultural exports as a consequence of the war. Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe, is still mostly unable to tend to its rich agricultural fields due to Russia’s invasion. Similarly, due to the […]

(Natural News) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations reported that global food prices soared above all-time highs in March as a consequence of unsolved supply chain issues and the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine. In March, the FAO’s food price index increased to its third straight record high. It jumped by nearly […]