{"id":56154,"date":"2020-12-24T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56154"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:59:17","slug":"running-out-of-soybeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56154","title":{"rendered":"Running Out Of Soybeans?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Running Out Of Soybeans?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Why food shortages may define the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Several factors are conspiring to weaken the reliability of our food production systems, warns Christian Westbrook, publisher of the website\u00a0IceAgeFarmer.com<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing a shortening of the growing season for important crops due to weather trends and changes in the solar cycle.<\/p>\n

Our food production system, which is highly dependent on chemical inputs and fossil fuels, is becoming increasingly brittle.<\/p>\n

And we have more vulnerability due to the global nature of modern food supply chains. Crop shortages\/failures in one part of the world impact all markets now.<\/p>\n

For example,\u00a0soybean supply is tightening<\/a>\u00a0as bad weather in South America and increased buying by China are hitting at a time when global stocks are already low.<\/p>\n

As the world population grows, climate instability continues, and more countries are able to economically compete for resources, experts foresee future demand that may prove overwhelming vs supply:<\/p>\n

What if several of the world\u2019s biggest food crops failed at the same\u00a0time?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In the past several decades, many of the world\u2019s major breadbaskets have experienced shocks \u2013 events that caused\u00a0large, rapid drops in food production<\/strong>. For example, regional droughts and heat waves in the Ukraine and Russia in 2007 and then again in 2009 damaged wheat crops and\u00a0caused global wheat prices to spike<\/a>\u00a0by substantial amounts in both years. In 2012 heat and drought in the United States slashed national corn, soybean and other crop yields by\u00a0up to 27 percent<\/a>. And\u00a0yields of important food crops are\u00a0low and stagnating<\/a>\u00a0in many countries<\/strong>\u00a0due to factors including plant diseases, poor soil quality, poor management practices and damage from air pollution.<\/p>\n

At the same time,\u00a0many experts assert that world food production\u00a0may have to double by 2050<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to feed a growing population and satisfy rising demand for meat, poultry and dairy products in developing countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Running Out Of Soybeans? Why food shortages may define the future Several factors are conspiring to weaken the reliability of our food production systems, warns Christian Westbrook, publisher of the website\u00a0IceAgeFarmer.com We\u2019re seeing a shortening of the growing season for important crops due to weather trends and changes in the solar cycle. Our food production […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9860,20,299,1912,2218,25793],"class_list":["post-56154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-adam-taggart","tag-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-soybeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56155,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions\/56155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}