Rising food prices Global Warming
October 21st, 2011Climate change is driving food prices, the survival of humanity to grain supplies, especially in the United States, Russia, Canada and China. They have the best soil for growing food on the basis of all our food, things like wheat, corn, rice, barley and beans. But global warming threatens to cause serious problems for farmers in some of the most important agricultural area, increasing food prices in the world, and famine in the poorest regions should focus on international cuisine and world.Americans effects on prices in our stores and also by increasing problems of the grains can lead to problems affecting our national security.
The wheat belt in China, no snow and rain since last October, the New York Times and the soil is too dry for crops in time. Many scientists say the drought change.China developing models to understand climate increasingly importing corn, like a drop of water tables and drought spreads. Why buy more grain for its 1.3 billion people will increase prices worldwide. China imported 28 times more grain in 2010 than in 2008 due to the heat wave in New York Times.Meanwhile in Russia last year, serious problems for the Russian wheat crop. Forest fires are most of the wheat crop in Russia.
Russian scientists say the heat and take the first light of global warming and climate disasters associated with this change date.As ancient grain exporting countries began to cover imports, the deficit in terms of climate, Americans and People also feel the effects of rising world prices of grains and waste were strife.Americans “If all the grain in the progress of livestock in the United States that could be individuals, the number of people are fed almost 800 million euros would be, “says David Pimentel, professor of ecology at the University” of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University University.
More half the grain produced in the U.S. for livestock instead of people feeds mainly on meat products from cows, cow production of foods high in saturated fat and cholesterol. If Americans reduce their meat consumption by half, we were able contribute to world food prices.for more information on food and the environment, see the link.
