Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
According to noted Canadian energy researcher Vaclav Smil, two-fifths of humanity’s more than three billion people are alive because of nitrogen fertilizer, the main ingredient in the Green Revolution that supercharged the agricultural sector in the 1960s.
Fertilizer tripled global grain production enabling the greatest human population growth the planet has ever seen. Now, it is in short supply, and farmers, fertilizer companies, and governments around the globe are scrambling to avert a seemingly inevitable tumble in crop yields.
Russia typically exports nearly 20 percent of the world’s nitrogen fertilizers and, combined with its sanctioned neighbor Belarus, 40 percent of the world’s exported potassium, according to analysts a Rabobank.
Most of that is now off-limits to the world’s farmers, thanks to Western sanctions and Russia’s recent fertilizer export restrictions. For farmers in North America, the main talk is fertilizers, specifically the price and availability of fertilizers.
“Prices are more or less 78 percent higher than average in 2021, and this is cracking up the production side of agriculture. In many regions, farmers simply can’t afford to bring fertilizers to the farm, or even if they could, the fertilizers are not available to them.
And it’s not just fertilizers, but agrichemicals and fuel as well.“Fertilizer is just the tip of the spear of the problems farmers are facing,” Moyer executive director of the Rodale Institute in Emmaus, Pennsylvania said.
“Look at Kansas and Nebraska. Both states are on fire this year and this is supposed to be their wet season. With weather patterns changing and energy costs going up and not coming down, we need to revolutionize our production models to minimize these impacts.”
This is a global crisis and it requires a global response. said the world farmers association, President Theo de Jager.
A rebound in an industrial activity that uses the raw ingredients in fertilizer coming out of the pandemic, combined with low global inventories of food grains, has pushed demand through the roof.
Suppliers, on the other hand, have been knocked back by one extreme weather event after another. It’s the agricultural powerhouses in Latin America that are the most vulnerable to fertilizer disruptions, particularly Brazil.
Brazil is among the world’s top three exporters of soybeans, corn, and sugar, as well as beef, chicken, and pork.
Half the countries in Africa depend on imported wheat from Russia and Ukraine, with 14 African countries getting more than half their wheat from the two warring nations.
Rising food prices now threaten to push millions of African families into poverty and malnutrition.
Revelations 6:5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Revelations 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Revelations 6:7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Revelations 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Proverbs 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Proverbs 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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