Violent conflicts and extreme weather patterns are increasingly jeopardizing global food production and trade. Experts anticipate a powerful super El Niño event, which threatens to further disrupt planting and harvesting cycles and push millions additional people into severe food insecurity.
Simultaneously, ongoing wars involving Iran and Ukraine continue to hamper shipping routes and supply chains, compounding the crisis.
Shawn Arita, an Associate Research Professor at North Dakota State University, emphasizes that logistical bottlenecks pose a greater threat than scarcity. “The food does exist, the availability does exist,” Arita stated. “The main issue currently speaking is that the movement is broken.”
Super El Niño sounds terrifying. Can you imagine the planting cycles completely off? The climate angle is getting out of hand fast.
Logistics bottleneck is such an eye-opener. We have enough food, just can’t move it. Needs better infrastructure investment globally.