We are looking at a full or partial government shutdown. Most of us can feel the instability in the air the same way a weather forecaster can feel a storm coming on. Logistics managers are battling the pandemic, labor shortages, and shipping congestion.Ĭostco has decided to rent its own container ships to import products from other parts of the world to the US in order to prevent delays and keep costs down as the global shipping crisis goes on and rapidly gets much worse. Chaos is disrupting supply chains around the world. Container ships just sitting in the ocean, going nowhere, full of stock Many big box retail and mom-and-pop shops alike are being affected by the shortages. Shortages, hackers, Pandora Papers, covid, stock market. The last months of this year will be interesting for sure. This documentary examines food insecurity as a societal problem, identifying the causes and exploring the many ways in which the government, non-profits, farmers and individuals are working to bring nutritious meals to the tables of those who need it. Further, isolation as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has made matters worse. Some neighborhoods have turned into “food swamps” – places dominated by fast-food restaurants. These so-called “food deserts” are not the only challenge. But often, entire communities are cut off from proper nutrition because there are no grocery stores nearby. For some, food insecurity is a matter of financial need. More than a million people in Pennsylvania are hungry because they cannot afford or do not have access to healthy food. In fact, Forbes is telling us that we should not expect to see things turn around “until late 2021 – or beyond”… The relentless rally in grain prices is the result of shrinking global supplies that might not be replaced until late 2021 – Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that things will get much better any time soon. The COVID pandemic, widespread crop failures and global supply chain disruptions are some of the factors that are being blamed for this growing crisis. As a result, prices for all three have been soaring and the number of hungry people around the planet is rapidly rising. Did you know that global supplies of wheat are shrinking? If that wasn’t bad enough, global supplies of corn and soybeans are shrinking as well.
It turns out that things are even worse than we originally thought. It’s an issue that goes far wider as well. We risk a looming food crisis unless measures are taken fast to protect the most vulnerable, and keep global food supply chains alive, and mitigate the pandemic’s impacts across the food system. In just one week, over 3 million Americans have turned to meal centers, food banks, and kitchens for any help that they can get. Foodbank donations have been cut in half at a time when queues are growing rapidly. They’re overwhelmed by people desperate for help. Food banks where low-income Americans can turn to survive are now struggling themselves. This is a dire situation families can only take day-by-day. More American families are today relying entirely on food pantries to bring food on the table. They could run out of food shortly, as demand intensifies, and donations and volunteers are dropping rapidly. As the pandemic and the economic fallout has left a number of Americans in need of assistance.įood Banks nationwide fear shortages as demand is exploding.
This is the mother of all crises food insecurity. With businesses closing, unemployment skyrocketing, and everyone forced to stay at home, a hurricane is about to hit. Food shortages are incoming, as the food supply chain already in danger of breaking down.