Title: 8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis - Business Connect World
Headings: 8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis
8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis
Factor #1 – Poverty
Factor #2 – Drought and Desertification
Factor #3 – Political Pressure
Factor #4 – Increased Consumption of Meat and Dairy
Factor #5 – Increased Oil and Transportation Costs
Factor #6 – Falling World Aid
Factor #7 – International Conflicts
Factor #8 – Disease
Perfect Storms

Content: The increase in the price of oil, which doubled in 2007 and 2008 and caused a big rise in the price of fertilizers and transport related to the food system, has resulted in increasing investment in the production of alternative fuels such as those of plant origin. Governments in the United States, the European Union, Brazil and others have subsidized production of agro-fuels in response to the scarcity of oil and global warming. But this green fuel production comes into direct competition with the production of food. To give just one example, in 2007 in the United States 20% of the total cereal harvest was used to produce ethanol and it is calculated in the next decade that this figure will reach 33%. We can imagine the situation in the countries of the South. Factor #6 – Falling World Aid
At the peak of the 2007-2008 food crisis, food aid was at it’s lowest point since 1961. This is one of the oddities about the national food market. When cereal prices are low, countries look to sell their food through international aid. However, when food prices are high, they prefer to sell them on the open market for increased profits. In other words, during food crises, when food is scarcest and at it’s highest prices, it isn’t available for international aid.