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: When food costs more to grow, it then costs more to sell. These rising costs then make it more difficult for the local population to purchase crops as well as for farmers to export their crops to industrialized nations. Additionally, increased oil costs has led many countries to invest heavily in the development of agro-fuels. More agro-fuels always means less food available. As Esther Vivas helpfully puts it: 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.