Food Crisis

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 earlier in the 1960s, but...

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 the crisis as well the...

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 in the evolving US-dominated global...

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 a few years into the...

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 disruptive nature of famines...

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 epidemic was getting worse, not...

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 time, 7 million people were...

A Cloud of Devastation Moves Across East Africa

The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of this chaos. As agriculture experts warn that March and April recorded higher temperatures and less rain...

The Worst Global Food Crisis Since World War II – We Are Entering Phase Two

In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every chaotic struggle unfolding around the world today. These three crises were food, water, and population....

Holodomor – Ukraine’s Genocide by Starvation

The word Holodomor translates to death by hunger or killing by starvation. It is the name given to the genocide carried out by Stalin and the Soviet Union against the Ukrainian people between 1932-33. Across the Soviet Union, around...
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The Crisis of Christian Conscience as Gaza Descends Into Genocide

On July 17, Israeli strikes on a church in Gaza killed three and injured several others. This attack is...
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