09.04.2022, 14:17
Als Ergänzung zu den Peru- und Ägypten-Threads; und als Überblick über die sich abzeichnenden Ernährungskrisen in Staaten weltweit. Diejenigen, die halbwegs gut gewirtschaftet haben, werden die Krise stemmen. Aber die, die eh schon vor dem Ukrainekrieg ernährungstechnisch und innenpolitisch als vakant anzusehen waren, werden schweren Umbrüchen entgegen sehen. Ägypten, Peru, Libanon sind nur ein Aspekt, aber die sowieso schon auf wackeligen Füßen stehende Atommacht Pakistan könnte auch destabilisiert werden, mit unkalkulierbaren Folgen...
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Zitat:From Pakistan to Peru, soaring food and fuel prices are tipping countries over the edgehttps://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/09/busin...index.html
London (CNN Business) - When people took to the streets in Egypt in 2011, protesters chanted about freedom and social justice — but also bread. The cost of pantry staples had jumped because of the skyrocketing price of goods like wheat, stoking fury with President Hosni Mubarak.
Now, more than a decade after the Arab Spring, global food prices are soaring again. They had already reached their highest level on record earlier this year as the pandemic, poor weather and the climate crisis upended agriculture and threatened food security for millions of people. Then came Russia's war in Ukraine, making the situation much worse — while also triggering a spike in the cost of the other daily essential, fuel. [...]
"It is extremely worrisome," said Rabah Arezki, a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and former chief economist at the African Development Bank. Unrest in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Peru over the past week highlights the risks. In Sri Lanka, protests have erupted over shortages of gas and other basic goods. Double-digit inflation in Pakistan has eroded support for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is clinging to power. At least six people have died in recent anti-government protests in Peru sparked by rising fuel prices. But political conflict isn't expected to be limited to these countries. [...]
The situation now is even worse than it was then. Global food prices have just hit a new record high. The FAO Food Price Index published Friday hit 159.3 in March, up almost 13% from February. The war in Ukraine, a major exporter of wheat, corn and vegetable oils, as well as harsh sanctions on Russia — a key producer of wheat and fertilizer — is expected to spur further price increases in the coming months. [...]
In Lebanon, where nearly three-quarters of the population was living in poverty last year as the result of a political and economic collapse, between 70% and 80% of imported wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine. Key grain silos were also destroyed during the 2020 explosion at the Beirut port. [...] Droughts and conflict in countries like Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Burkina Faso have created a food security crisis for more than a quarter of the continent's population, the International Committee of the Red Cross said this week. The situation risks getting worse in the coming months, it continued.
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