Register

Peak Oil is You


Donate Bitcoins ;-) or Paypal :-)

Donate Bitcoin



Donate Paypal

Page added on February 24, 2024

Bookmark and Share

The Mystery of Food Politics and It’s Proposed Extrication

The Mystery of Food Politics and It’s Proposed Extrication thumbnail

Wars and cross border conflicts are known to stifle food supply mechanisms and impact production on a large scale. Ukraine being foremost exporter maize, oilseeds, wheat among other food commodities stands at an all time high supply risk of essential supplies. Food, famines and farming are conspicuously deeply connected to politics and governance. All policies claim to be designed in way that will assure the end of hunger, enhance nutritional values, ensure food security and promote sustainable agriculture in societies but thought, vision and policy implementation often don’t align with the elemental needs of commoners. In academics, Food Politics isn’t a new subject – it attempts to holistically study governmental and institutional policies that comprise of regulations, control, production, distribution and consumption of food. In recent years, there has been wide scale planning on a gamut of factors like usage of pesticides, Genetically Modified Crops and Biofuels. Climate Change also stands as a challenge to secure future food security.

Unfavourable climactic conditions are detrimental to food production owing to unpredictable weather, natural calamities and numerous environmental hazards cause further damage. In 2022, number of people affected by worldwide food insecurity rose from 135 million in 53 countries in 2019 to 345 million in 82 countries. Climate change continues to remain a challenge and its ill effects can be seen in  health of citizens and livelihoods of small farmers. In the event of floods and droughts, weaker sections of the society get deprived of adequate nutrition. Small farmers struggle to earn enough money to pay for seeds, fertilizers and other farming essentials. Statistics indicate that while many countries especially in the EU as well as England have shown remarkable progress in this sphere, developed economies like the US and China fail to do enough to align themselves with the positive transformation. Many developing economies still find themselves doddering in the domain; albeit the adaption of renewable energy sources and solar energy.

In India, the farmer’s agitations that begun in 2020, seem once more on the flare-up. Farmers from certain North Indian States are demanding legal guarantees of a minimum support price (MSP), which is an assurance for the farming community and includes waivers of farm loans; and a demand to withdraw certain policies that go against the interest of farmers. Put simply MSP is the cost which government purchases crops from farmers, promising farmers a fixed income for their produce even if markets go bit volatile. Benefits to farmers are always a pivotal focal point in politics – as we see Donald Trump talking about farmer welfare in almost each of his speeches.

The current protestors allege that though India’s central Government did form a committee to address farming issues, it failed to include representatives from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana all three states being major grain producers. They further allege that the committee has hardly made any fruitful progress on MSP. Farmers continue bearing with a gamut of problems and crop failures cause huge debts forcing many farmers to even end their lives. Farmers want he demand is for the MSP to be fixed at least fifty percent higher than production cost of the crop. Farmers are wary of the government’s planned privatization of the electricity sector which will mean a hike in bills, adding to their woes. Many Indian state governments provide subsidized electricity to farmers, which help keeping key costs in control. There’s also a demand of compensating farmers who lost their lives in 2020-2021 protests.

Government policy influences the price around food’s production, its distribution and availability. Policies also ensure safety of the food supply domestically and internationally. On a domestic scale, food policy effort affects farmers, wholesale traders, food processors, retailers and end users. Commodity crops like wheat, rice, corn and soy are mostly central to policy making in agriculture. India’s Niti (National Institution for Transforming India) works as the top public policy think tank of the Government. Professor Ramesh Chand member of NITI Aayog and a Union Minister of State is a passionate farmer himself. He shares snippets of his study entitled ‘From Green Revolution to Amrit Kaal’ that he and Jaspal Singh, an agricultural consultant have authored. Professor Chand’s study reveals that MSP for farm produce is vital to safeguard against unfair competitiveness an malpractice in agri markets. Chand and Singh argue that in periods of glut MSP becomes important and as a measuring sustem it must not cause distortions in market signals and incentives – stating that India must use the two instruments of procurement and price deficiency payment. Both Chand and Singh accept that public procurement ought to be linked to the quantity required for the public distribution system, stability in price and protecting strategic stocks.

MSP in mandated crops should be realized via price deficiency payment.   When MSP is higher than exportable price and implemented by a set procurement system then export without subsidy is impossible and many countries see this directly as a violation of the WTO agreement. In recent times India has projecting itself as the pioneer of the Millet revolution. Though bit highly priced the grain has been projected as a crop that is salubrious and can take care of nutritional deficiencies among adults and children.

Dr. Edmond Fernandes-  Director, Edward & Cynthia Institute of Public Health, India opines that though the present government has taken steps needed to fix the problem of malnutrition through various schemes like Poshan Abhiyan, Poshan Maa and other local initiatives. However, it would be wise to address the problem through a cross sectoral perspective as cascading risks is impacting the concerns around food security and healthy nutrition. And what remains critical is to have these solutions reaching the last mile communities.

The National Institute of Nutrition has given many viable alternatives of low-cost energy rich diet which can address the problems of nourishment and immunity boosters, people need common and easy solutions, not complex systems and sophisticated mechanisms.               Domestic and international food markets look strongly integrated and in the face of the war, is India playing a vital enough role in securing global food supply chains?

Dr. Fernandes strongly believes that India has always historically played a vital role in global food supply chains and in the midst of war, and a rapidly proliferating socio-economic condition, the onus will fall back on nations like India to play big brother during a global food crisis or shortfall too.

The doctor makes a pertinent point when he says that though surveys help understand the problem, they don’t necessarily help figure out solutions which are usually complex and calls for special talents. “Governments need to tap into talented individuals and not political loyalists,” concludes the young specialist.

Food insecurity can become an increasing problem in the times to come. While food prices are likely to rise due to climate change and a growing world population, nutritious food is likely to become unattainable for more and more people. World statistics reveal that almost 3 billion people are affected by food insecurity and malnutrition quietly continues to affect people in myriad ways – which one may not even be aware of. While the saga of protests, promises and new deliberations continue, the world must be ready to deal with food shortages, price hikes as world population will continue growing and supplies may either be inadequate or substandard in quality – if systems don’t deploy robust mechanisms to extricate out the problems that threaten global food chains and supplies.

modern diplomacy



733 Comments on "The Mystery of Food Politics and It’s Proposed Extrication"

  1. ddd on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 6:48 pm 

    I understand now what GOD meant when he said to me: believe me, it is therapeutic to torture the humans before killing them all. He was right it is therapeutic to torture low IQ inbreed humans.

  2. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 7:05 pm 

    The whole planet is turning against Europe, UK Jews and Israel. I just saw a video titled, China female military parade. Chian is even turning his back against Europe. Feminism is a concept coming from Europe to dominate the world.

  3. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 7:23 pm 

    Look at their facial expressions. UK, Jews, Israel and Europe know that are done, and they also know that I will finish them off while they are weak.

  4. dde on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 7:23 pm 

    Look at their facial expressions. UK, Jews, Israel and Europe know that are done, and they also know that I will finish them off while they are weak.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPMYr3vzymo

  5. dee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 7:37 pm 

    As soon as I can totally bring down to the ground UK, Jews, Israel and Europe I finish with kick in the heads until the can no longer move.

  6. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 8:06 pm 

    Even China is turning its back against Europe. Time to finish off Europe, UK, Jews and Israel for ever. We remove them from the supply chain as a way to ration natural resources.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKOvHA9RN4E

  7. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 8:27 pm 

    I like Thailand. They created an almost perfect red lights district inside a city. Very valuable informations they provide to the rest of the world.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIjp6ExefQ

  8. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 9:01 pm 

    Notice how frequently they physically touch each other in the video below. You don’t see that in Whites western nations. . Time to finish off Europe, UK, Jews and Israel for ever. We remove them from the supply chain as a way to ration natural resources.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIjp6ExefQ

  9. ddd on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 11:21 pm 

    This is funny as fuck. Reverse immigration is taking place. Talented and rich people are leaving the West and moving into east Asia, such as Thailand, Vietnam. This is the end of the West. Nobody want to live in Canada, US, UK and Europe, everybody with talents wants out. The West is a shit hole and people are running from it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjywcwXPVvk

  10. ee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 11:27 pm 

    The money is leaving the West for East Asia. This is why nothing gets build in the West, because the money is moving into East Asians nations.

  11. eee on Thu, 21st Mar 2024 11:32 pm 

    I knew something was happening in Pattaya but I did not what it was. Now I know. People in the West are leaving to East Asia. This is why Thailand is becoming a prosperous nation while the West is sinking into decay. You still love your fucking globalism and the free flow of money around the world. You still love your Jews. East Asians are not going to be bossed around by the Jews like the Whites have.

  12. ddd on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 12:37 am 

    This is not my comment, but I tend to agree with what he said. The elites will get it and it will be really brutal for them,

    We are in a civil war.

    No civil war goes hot until the economy goes bad. Once the economy goes bad then the shooting will start.

    This second Civil War will not be like the first because it will be more like the French Revolution with the people who started and caused the problems being eliminated.

  13. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 1:23 am 

    Stopping The New World Order (2009)

    https://rumble.com/v4kcoyi-stopping-the-new-world-order-2009.html

    I am the one person that none was expecting that is here to tell the world about one world government before the population of earth gets killed by GOD.

  14. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 8:43 am 

    The West is being dismantled. The capital is going toward South East Asia so will the oil, and natural resources. They are shutting down the west by filling it up with low quality immigrants while they filling up the south east Asia with high quality immigrants that have money and can read and write. Every one living in the West that has talent and money will eventually immigrate to South East Asian and I understand them of abandoning the West. Why do you think I watch a lot of videos about Thailand. The West is done and I am happy about it. Finally Whited people have decided that they had enough of being hated by their own government and being called racists, antisemitic and Whites suprematism.

  15. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:19 am 

    The world wide demographic decline will benefit South East Asia as talented people will move there and abandon the West. South East Asia has better weather and none of the woke garbage. At the least in South East Asia Whites people are not called racism and antisemitic. The West will die as the demographic decline progresses and will become irrelevant as it deserves rightly.

  16. eed on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:29 am 

    As always the West will try to start a war with Asia but they will failed, because the manufacturing moved into Asia and they don’t have enough talented people to be able to run an army efficiently. The West is done.

  17. dde on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:35 am 

    Eventually South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zeeland will abandon the West and turn toward South East Asia for trade. I think it is already happening.

  18. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:44 am 

    US will continue to put Israel national priorities before its own until it destroy itself completely.

    For the US the well being of Jewish race precede the well being of the Whites race.

  19. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:50 am 

    Eventually the West will be a collection ethically race mixed people where nothing gets built, nothing gets fixed and nothing new gets invented. You can say thank you to Mulroney for that. You will never be able to rebuild the West because of natural resources depletion. ALl the naturae ressources left will go to Asia.

  20. ded on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 9:57 am 

    Talented men like me that cannot leave the West for whatever reasons, will become resentful and seek to destroy it using passive-aggressive methods. I already have a deep hatred toward Québec and Canada because of restrictive handgun laws. My hatred for them will only grow bigger as time move on.

  21. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:02 am 

    As the population of Asia grows that will give them an higher priority on the international supply chain list and they will be able to pull the supply chain their way ahead of Europe, Canada and North America supply chain, therefore sending natural ressources to South East Asia ahead of North America, Canada and Europe. You still love the Jews. No retaliation toward the Jews.

  22. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:04 am 

    You like my predictions about the futurs.

  23. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:14 am 

    Eventually, because of Asia population growth and their ability to pull the international supply chain their way, maritime container shipping toward Europe, US and Canada will slowdown considerably causing shortage because some of the maritime container shipping has been redirect toward South East Asia. The West is never coming back from that.

  24. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:27 am 

    As the South East Asian population keep growing, they can pull the supply chain their way. Once the US, Canada and West collapse they wont be able to rebuild because the Asian will have captured the supply chain. Natural ressources depletion will make it impossible for the West to rebuild anything. Only the fast decay will happen in the West. I think we are already seeing this decay through in the deep south. You are still in love with the Jews. No retaliation toward the Jews yet.

  25. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:40 am 

    I have trouble to see how the West will be able to rebuild once it has collapsed. Especially in an environment of accelerate natural ressources depletions. South east Asia is doing the right thing be allowing immigration of rich people. It give them more leverage to pull the supply chain their way, plus they get quality immigrants unlike the West that get the bottom of the barrel immigrants.

  26. eed on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:04 am 

    there is already a growing population of Indians for India in Thailand. They will do to South East Asia what they did to the West. They will eventually destroy the place. This is so fucking funny.¯

  27. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:14 am 

    Only the people that will leave earth will live. For the moment, South East Asia has a bigger advantage over the West. The West will never recover from this. I find this whole thing really entertaining and funny. I am having a good laugh at the expense of the West.

    There is already in place big shit in migrations patterns. The migrations patterns are toward East Asia and away from the West. The West will deplete really rapidly demographically.

  28. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:24 am 

    If I have one advice for South East Asia. Be aware the destruction coming from immigration
    of Indians of India. Don’t let them in, you will regret that.

  29. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:33 am 

    This is a theory of mine. As my body is being updated to adapt to a changing earth electromagnetic field, people will look more weird as time goes on. You will need a flesh body update to be able to stay alive during the establishment of the new electromagnetic field. We are killing the undesirable people of earth.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxpMiOYxK4

  30. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:39 am 

    As far as I can tell, I will be the only one alive in Québec after the establishment of a new earth magnetic field. I might be the only survivor on earth after the establishment of new field.

  31. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:48 am 

    My feeling, that after the establishment of a new earth magnetic field, the earth will be almost empty. I could be wrong about this, but this is my prediction according to what I see around me.

  32. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 6:12 pm 

    I am expecting the West to die and talented Whites to seek a new home either in South East Asian or South America. Personally I would bet on South East Asia. South East Asia is my first choice. I hate Canada and Québec too much to help them in any way. I want to see them destroy. It is possible that some nations offer free citizenship as the demographic decline happen. In this case it will be it easier for Whites people to seek a new home abroad. I don’t expect the West to survive.

  33. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 6:29 pm 

    I expect that Whites talented men will leave the West and abandon older people and women. The West will die rapidly as it will be made mainly of older people and women. Western women will be left behind to die alone in western nations.

  34. ee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 6:40 pm 

    I expect Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippine to benefit from Whites man abandoning the West. I expect these nation to do better to the West.

  35. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 6:47 pm 

    You are already seeing the decline of the West when it comes to car repair. You cannot find a mechanics competent enough to diagnose electrical malfunction on a car engine. Eventually, the only people that will run a car are people like me that can fix their own car.

  36. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 7:00 pm 

    Brazil might also benefit from Whites men abandoning the west and seeking a new home. The West is done and never coming back. Only stupid intellectuels that have never done any real manual labor such as car mechanic, welding, are unable to see it.

  37. ddd on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 7:43 pm 

    If during the demographic collapse, some South East Asia nations were to decide to offer free citizenship to Whites people, this would empty the west of Whites men. There is no way the West will survive a demographic collapse.

  38. ddd on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 10:01 pm 

    49:21 palm trees are dying.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njzlItgcNzc

  39. eee on Fri, 22nd Mar 2024 11:52 pm 

    The young teen girls are wearing G-string bathing suit at the aquapark. Sodom and Gomorrah it is indeed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ5Z1K2u-2s

  40. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 12:01 am 

    1:16 bathing suit. Sodom and Gomorrah. Only a couple of chosen ones will live, they rest of earth population will be killed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbl1Whc7yzs

  41. dd on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 12:21 am 

    Sodom and Gomorrah. Only a couple of chosen ones will live, they rest of earth population will be killed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJ_VTaWVAM

  42. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 3:32 am 

    There is more Whites men in Pattaya then Miami. You will see the capable Whites men leave the West and leave women, older people behind. I stand by my point, the west is finished. Once a collapse occurs, the West will never be rebuild. Asian will become the new power center of the world for a while. Asia will be able to pull the supply chain their way. This will greatly disadvantage US, Canada, Europe.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiDrQSgIeI

  43. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 3:48 am 

    I stand by my point that once the west collapses for good, Whites men will leave the west for other nations. The world wide demographic decline will help Whites that want to reallocate and other nations might be wiling to welcome Whites man as it will help them pull the supply chain their way. THe power center of the world will move toward Asia so are the natural resources and the supply chain. Europe, North America and South America will be the biggest loser and eventually they will be excluded from the supply chain because of the lack of diesel fuel that will to allocate exclusively toward Asia to keep manufacturing alive.

  44. ddd on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 4:06 am 

    Passport Bros TRIGGERING The Young Turks As Men REJECT Leftist Utopias For Traditional Life Abroad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXwc2yaVyJw

    I was right the West is done.

  45. dde on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 10:05 am 

    You want to know why I will not come to save Canada. I will not save Canada becaue I hate these people and want to see them dead:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhSvV2SIc1Y
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-tw64YVn-0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOaCyGyBgDg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEdoCcDyqak
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc1mM5Wvo4I

  46. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 10:09 am 

    I want to see everyone inside this church dead. This is why I will not come to save Canada and I will work toward its destructions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Auv7U2ByCY

  47. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 11:55 am 

    The chat room is making fun of the whole event. The chat room is mocking Mulroney the catholic church and much more.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW5jsROEucU

    I am a big supporter of executing the genetic lineage of traitors. I am a French Québecer. The French Québecer race is a mediocre race that does not deserve to survive. I will gladly cheer the dead over the total extermination of the French Quévercer. This is why I barely write comment in my native language. I considerer the French Québec mediocre and not worth of life.

  48. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 12:01 pm 

    Québec where mediocrity is a way of life. I love diversity and multiculturalism because it killed my attachment toward the land of Québec, this will help me when time come for me to move abroad.

    La criss de grosse chienne sale a Legault. Je ne suis pas capable de le sentir le criss de tabarnacle

  49. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 12:09 pm 

    There is a reason why I wrote almost all my comments in English instead of my native tongue. I hate Québec and the French Canadian culture. It is a culture of mediocrity. I have no problems killing all the French Canadians and English Canadians, I think they deserve a painful death.

  50. eee on Sat, 23rd Mar 2024 12:17 pm 

    La grosse conne a Péladeau n’arrêtait de sortir sa langue de lézard du son discours. La chriss de grosse chienne a Legault..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW5jsROEucU

1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 15

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *