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Global Review – May 2023
Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our May Global Review podcast begins with a look at the growing financial crisis. While...
The Green Revolution – Food Crisis Part 7
After the unique economic factors (see yesterday's post), the second solution to the crisis of these debtor nations in the early 1980s is known to history as the Green Revolution.
The Green Revolution actually began...
The Borrowers Become Servants to the Lenders – Food Crisis Part 6
In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in the 1960s and 70s. Two significant factors contributed solutions to...
Global Review – April 2023
Our monthly global review podcast looks at the state of the chaos around the world during the preceding month. Our April Global Review podcast looks at the growing geopolitical conflicts in the shadow of...
Benevolent Aid Becomes Pragmatic Economics – Food Crisis Part 5
By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world. From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece of American aid throughout the world and a foundational element...
How We Ruined the World – Food Crisis Part 4
The end of World War II resulted in the near total destruction of Europe’s powerful nations and the global complex of colonialism they erected over the course of the prior century. It was only...
How We Saved the World – Food Crisis Part 3
Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks much of our history. The oldest recorded human history captures...
The Lands of Excess – Food Crisis Part 2
While famine rages in one part of the world, in other parts obesity is climbing to record rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued reports in 2016 detailing how the US obesity...
Food Crisis Overview – Part 1
In early 2017, the Secretary General of the United Nations warned that 20 million people were at risk of famine, including 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death (37). In Yemen alone at that...
Sudan on the Brink
The outbreak of violence this week has brought the world to the brink of a Sudan civil war. Such a conflict poses a risk for a wider regional war in Africa.
Deadly fighting broke...