N-gated Hacker NewsMay 5
🍏🚜 "Oh no, our global buffet isn't self-sufficient!" cries the article, as if nations forgot to plant some magical food trees. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Meanwhile, Nature Food thinks CSS is as crucial as calories. πŸ½οΈπŸ™ƒ
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4 #globalfoodsecurity #foodinnovation #natureandtechnology #cssimportance #foodforthought #HackerNews #ngated
Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency - Nature Food

Recent global disruptions have revived the food self-sufficiency debate. This study analyses countries’ trade dependencies and the discrepancy between their domestic food production and guidelines for a healthy and sustainable diet across seven essential food groups.

Nature
Show threadanlomedadMar 25

2/ Incidentally, 2023 would have been a year for such a scoop in an alternative universe "Year with the largest harvest loss in all but West Europe, USA, South-East Asia and West Asia."

The charts show export in tons of all food stuffs by the regions indicated. I just assume that lower export in ton means lower harvest from the same amount of land.
"growth" means the difference to the previous year.

Note how repeated negative growth year-on-year means ever declining harvest, and that a positive change year-on-year has to match the combined losses from previous years to ensure previous levels of food security.

Quite shocking, isn't it. Explaining these figures would be worth a scoop by WMO (replacing this week's report on 2nd warmest Global Mean Β°C).

Because the losses destabilise the societies in these regions – also beyond of course, because lower export spells lower food import elsewhere.
Read the ALT-txt maybe. I know that "growth", ie year-on-year change is a confusing perspective and the ALTtext might make interpreting the charts easier?

#RCPcollapse #FoodSecurity #GlobalFoodSecurity #ClimateChange

Dr Susi ArnottMar 12
"Nearly half the world's traded urea β€” the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer β€” comes from the Gulf region, with Qatar accounting for one-tenth of the global supply, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
When QatarEnergy last week halted production after Iranian strikes on Ras Laffan, the world's biggest LNG and fertilizer hub, hundreds of thousands of tons of key fertilizer nutrients and precursors were sidelined"
#IranWar #globalfoodsecurity
https://p.dw.com/p/5A5Yy
How the Iran war could trigger a fresh food crisis

The Iran conflict is driving up energy and fertilizer costs, raising alarms over a return of food inflation. Farmers are bracing for resource shortages that could drag down harvests.

Deutsche Welle
Dr Susi ArnottMay 28, 2025
Call-out for any potential speakers on post-dustbowl industrialised agriculture in USA and future #globalfoodsecurity
https://voices.uchicago.edu/triplehelix/2025/01/02/the-dry-future-of-the-american-plains-threats-to-the-ogallala-aquifer/
The Dry Future of the American Plains: Threats to the Ogallala Aquifer | The Triple Helix at UChicago

Headlines AfricaMar 5, 2025
Africa: Strong Food Systems Can Deliver Progress for Everyone, Everywhere - UN Deputy Chief: [UN News] In a series of meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed spearheaded discussions on fortifying global food systems and advancing sustainable development, setting the stage for the upcoming fourth UN Food Systems Summit. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJKsCL #Africa #FoodSystems #SustainableDevelopment #UNSummit #GlobalFoodSecurity
innovation2Sep 2, 2023

Artificial methods of growing lettuce produce twice the amount of the crop as traditional field-based methods https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/09/artificial-methods-of-growing-lettuce-produce-twice-the-amount-of-the-crop-as-traditional-field-based-methods/

#UniOfSurrey #controlledenvironmentagriculture #globalfoodsecurity

Artificial methods of growing lettuce produce twice the amount of the crop as traditional field-based methods

Innovation Toronto
EU in UkraineAug 5, 2023

Re Thanks to BSGI, 33M tonnes of grains were exported to 45 countries, reducing food prices by 25%. EU remains committed to resuming BSGI. Full article: http://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/08/2/7166849/
#GlobalFoodSecurity

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDelegationUA/status/1687835521194582017

"We Can Get Russia to Resume Its Participation in Grain Deal With Unified Voice." Column of EU Top Diplomat

β€œContrary to the lies spread by Russia, the EU has indeed ensured that our sanctions have no impact on global food security.”

European Pravda
UkraineWorldApr 2, 2023

Why is The Kinburn Spit so important to be liberated? #RussiaUkraineWar
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RT @rubrykaeng
The Kinburn Spit remains the only part of the #Mykolaiv region under πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ίcontrol.

However, the liberation of this spit is of primary importance for providing #globalfoodsecurity and de-occupation of #Crimea.

https://rubryka.com/en/2023/04/02/vijska-rf-perebuvayut-u-pasttsi-na-kinburni-gumenyuk-poyasnyla-golovnu-problemu-okupantiv/
https://twitter.com/RubrykaEng/status/1642419247107145729

Rubryka EnglishApr 2, 2023

The Kinburn Spit remains the only part of the #Mykolaiv region under πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ίcontrol.

However, the liberation of this spit is of primary importance for providing #globalfoodsecurity and de-occupation of #Crimea.

https://rubryka.com/en/2023/04/02/vijska-rf-perebuvayut-u-pasttsi-na-kinburni-gumenyuk-poyasnyla-golovnu-problemu-okupantiv/

Norobiik @[email protected]Mar 19, 2023

"The #BlackSeaGrainInitiative and Memorandum of Understanding are essential for #GlobalFoodSecurity, but #Russia only agreed to renew the pact for 60 days."

#Ukraine Black Sea grain deal extended for at least 60 days | #UkraineWar #FoodSecurity
https://www.rappler.com/business/ukraine-black-sea-grain-deal-extension-march-2023/

Ukraine Black Sea grain deal extended for at least 60 days

Ukraine says the grain deal had been extended for 120 days. But Russia's cooperation is needed and Moscow only agreed to renew the pact for 60 days.

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