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Palm oil jumps to new record price

Palm oil jumps to new record price

Palm Oil Jumps 10% To New Record As Indonesia Expands Export Ban Palm oil futures jumped 10% to a new record-high as Indonesia expanded its cooking oil export ban to include crude palm oil to ensure domestic supplies were stable, according to Bloomberg. Indonesia, the world’s biggest cooking oil shipper, initially said the temporary export ban would only apply to refined, bleached, and deodorized palm olein. However, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the ban would be expanded to…

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In New Zealand in some regions it is illegal to plant new ground in vegetables

In New Zealand in some regions it is illegal to plant new ground in vegetables

This is an interview on NZ television with an award-winning vegetable grower on the problems growers are facing, in terms of both cost and regulation in growing food and getting it to the market. He says it is a problem that has been brewing for the last 5 years or so. There were warnings back then that the changes made by government would bring the very food prices we are seeing. He points out: The cost of production has been…

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China Power Crunch Could Force Global Food Prices Even Higher

China Power Crunch Could Force Global Food Prices Even Higher

Zero Hedge, 30 September, 2021 Global food prices climbed back to near-decade highs in early September, reviving concerns about inflationary pressures. A newly emerging risk that many have missed and could catapult food prices even higher this fall/winter is China’s difficult harvest season as power curbs hurt the outlook for production, according to Bloomberg.  Autumn harvest has begun for the world’s second-largest economy amid power constraints in at least 20 Chinese provinces and regions, making up more than 66% of the country’s GDP. Some of these regions are industrial…

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On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices

On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices

By Michael Every of Rabobank https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/verge-global-food-crisis-one-bank-warns-biblical-rally-food-prices Biblical, Lean, and Mean: ‘Dreams’ of an agri-commodity super-cycle Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river. Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and fat; and they fed in the meadow. Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gaunt, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt. And the…

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My first blog post

My first blog post

The following is the very first blog post I posted on 1 April, 2011. I have left it ‘as is’ with the removed video. Reflections on Peak Oil, climate change and resource depletion  I am very concerned at the turn of events in the world.  Numerous crises are occurring simultaneously that indicate a rapid deterioration in the situation for many countries (and the world in general).     MANAGEMENT (AND DISTORTION) OF NEWS BY THE MEDIA   The way we…

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An examination of a global food crisis fuelled by CHINA

An examination of a global food crisis fuelled by CHINA

On The Brink Of A Major Food Shortage  PART ONE – CHINA China On The Brink Of A Major Food Shortage! Prepare For Worldwide Starvation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfB3zsRtg-I&list=LL&index=20 ’China has no food and no money,’ Now, Myanmar is exposing China’s desperation for rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTfjXOBetWA How China is slowly KILLING us all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PPP7sRlHEE On The Brink Of A Major Food Shortage  PART TWO – INDIA AND  AUSTRALASIA Gravitas: Amid fears of food shortage, Chinese kick off global hunt for grains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgiOJUbfNsc&feature=share Food Shortage…

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Hunger in US and skyrocketing prices in Australia

Hunger in US and skyrocketing prices in Australia

 Fruit and vegetable prices set to skyrocket in Australia due to labour shortage | 7NEWS Coronavirus is affecting food prices with fears of a 25 per cent hike in fresh fruit and vegetables over summer. The problem is travel restrictions cutting off seasonal harvest crews with the NSW industry alone short some 90,000 workers. Hunger in US | ‘Everybody’s  just worried about their next  meal’ #Hunger in the #UnitedStates is up markedly this year. Feeding America says the number of…

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The escalating price of food globally

The escalating price of food globally

The Price Of Half The World’s  Staple Food Is Up 70% In  2020 Zero Hedge, 5 June  2020 First the good news: after soaring to record highs one month ago due to widespread shutdowns of meat processing plants and supply chain impairments, wholesale beef prices have tumbled sharply and are just barely higher than where they were before the coronavirus pandemic struck. Now the not so good news: as Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett notes in his Flow Show today, while…

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