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According to the World Bank, 44

million people around the globehave been pushed into extreme

poverty, (INCOME OF LESS THAN

ONE DOLLAR PER DAY) since last

June because of rising foodprices.

The world is losing topsoil at an

astounding rate. In fact one thirdof the worlds cropland is losing

topsoil faster than new soil is

forming through natural processes.

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Due to U.S. ethanol subsidies,almost a third of all corn grown

in the United States is nowused for fuel. This is putting alot of stress on the price ofcorn.

Due to a lack of water, somecountries in the Middle Eastfind themselves forced to almosttotally rely on other nations forbasic food staples. For example,

it is being projected that therewill be no more wheatproduction in Saudi Arabia bythe year 2012.

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Water tables all over the globe arebeing depleted at an alarming rate dueto overpumping. According to theWorld Bank, there are 130 million peoplein China and 175 million people in Indiathat are being fed with grain withwater that is being pumped out of

aquifers faster than it can be replaced.

In the United States, the systematicdepletion of the Ogallala Aquifer could

eventually turn Americas Breadbasketback into the Dust Bowl.

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Diseases such as UG99 wheatrust are wiping out increasinglylarge segments of the world

food supply. The tsunami and subsequent

nuclear crisis in Japan haverendered vast agricultural areasin that nation unusable. In fact,

there are many that believe thateventually a significant portionof northern Japan will beconsidered to beuninhabitable. Not only that,

many are now convinced thatthe Japanese economy, the thirdlargest economy in the world, islikely to totally collapse as aresult of all this.

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The price of oil may be the biggest factor on this list. The way that weproduce our food is very heavily dependent on oil. The way that wetransport our food is very heavily dependent on oil. When you have

skyrocketing oil prices, our entire food production system becomes much moreexpensive. If the price of oil continues to stay high, we are going to seemuch higher food prices and some forms of food production will no longermake economic sense at all.

At some point the world could experience a very serious fertilizershortage. According to scientists with the Global Phosphorus ResearchInitiative, the world is not going to have enough phosphorous to meetagricultural demand in just 30 to 40 years.

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Food inflation is already devastating many economies around

the globe. For example, India is dealing with an annual food

inflation rate of 18 percent. According to the United Nations, the global price of food

reached a new all-time high in February.

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According to the World Bank, the global

price of food has risen 36% over the past

12 months. The commodity price of wheat, soybeans,

oranges and corn has approximately

doubled since last summer.

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There are about 3 billion people around the globe that live on the equivalent

of 2 dollars a day or less and the world was already on the verge of

economic disaster before this year even began.

2011 has already been one of the craziest years since World War2. Revolutions have swept across the Middle East, the United States has got

involved in the civil war in Libya, Europe is on the verge of a financial

meltdown and the U.S. dollar is dying. None of this is good news for global

food production.

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There have been persistent

rumors of shortages at some

of the biggest suppliers ofemergency food in the United

States. The following is an

excerpt from a recent special

alert posted on Raiders NewsNetwork.

So what does all of this

mean?

It means that time is less.

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Ethanol= Ethanol is a bio fuel made from corn and other crops.

Aquifer= An aquifer is a wet underground layer of water-

bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials.

Persistent= Existing for a long or longer than usual time or

continuously as a retained beyond the usual period.

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