FOOD SECURITY

by David Nuttle

With a current global population of over eight billion and 820 million of these people living on the brink-of-starvation, we do not have food security. Most agricultural specialists agree

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that counter-desertification technologies, to grow crops on desert land (1/3rd of all land) has the potential to achieve food security for all as well as providing green energy and extensive carbon sequestration to help reduce global warming. As I have posted in a detailed counter-desertification blog, desert crop production will take 1) Development & management of the available water resources sufficient to support drip irrigation; 2) Shelter belts created with arid region trees to create microclimates favorable for crop production; and 3) Addition of a small amount of biochar, inoculated with cultured soil microbes, to produce required plant nutrients in sandy soils. Other essential inputs are indicated in my said prior blog.

We do not now have food security due to a number of different factors stated below:

a) Counter-desertification technologies are under development and not yet fully utilized to make most desert lands grow crops.

b) Fresh water supplies to support irrigation are poorly developed and desalinization of sea water, to provide fresh water for irrigation, has just recently become economical thanks to the work on desalinization means by Israel.

c) Commercial fertilizers are expensive and in short supply and use of biochar as an organic supply of plant nutrients, by means of inoculated soil microbes, is a recent practice. (This technology was actually developed and long used by tribes in the Amazon Basin.)

d) Incompetence and corruption in most developing nations long limited funding & support for agriculture development.

e) Armed conflicts caused by prolonged hunger issues have reduced food crop production; e. g. armed conflict in the Darfur Region of Sudan killing over 400,000 people due to hunger.

f) Actions by narco-terrorist groups, in some areas, to force farmers to grow illegal drug crops such as opium poppies.

g) Extensive use of chemical agriculture, that is not sustainable, increases crop production costs, and tends to reduce crop yields over time.

h) Damaging energy policy increasing the cost of commercial fertilizers over 300 percent in the last few years.

i) Slow development of organic farming practices to sustain high crop yields and lower crop production costs while reducing harm to our environment.

j) Actions by CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Special Ops Teams to attack farms to reduce crop production as a means of increasing food insecurity and social chaos to force target nations to convert to communism. N. B. In the last few months, during 2024-25, there were over 200 very suspicious midnight fires and/or explosions on U. S. farms. CCP teams have been seen in the area of such probable terrorist attacks.

k) There are now more droughts, floods, heating, plant diseases, and other harmful events probably due to climatic change.

l) The PRC (China) my have engaged in some biological warfare to harm crop production and possibly developed as well as released the COVID-19 virus killing farmers along with many others, worldwide.

Corrective actions are needed to eliminate the above said problems acting to deter actual global food security.