A Zimbabwean peasant farmer in a crop of maize destroyed by drought.
One expert warns: ‘The geopolitics of food is fast overshadowing the geopolitics of oil.’
Photograph: Howard Burditt/Reuters

A Zimbabwean peasant farmer in a crop of maize destroyed by drought. One expert warns: ‘The geopolitics of food is fast overshadowing the geopolitics of oil.’ Photograph: Howard Burditt/Reuters

– “Global grain reserves hit critically low levels”
“World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.”

‘We’ve not been producing as much as we are consuming. That is why stocks are being run down. Supplies are now very tight across the world and reserves are at a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year,’ said Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). With food consumption exceeding the amount grown for six of the past 11 years, countries have run down reserves from an average of 107 days of consumption 10 years ago to under 74 days recently,” quoting John Vidal in UK’s Guardian.
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– UPDATE: November 27, 2012
“Sea changes harming ocean now could someday undermine marine food chain”
“Scientists years ago figured out that a group of tiny snail-like sea creatures crucial to marine food webs may one day be an early victim of changing ocean chemistry.

Researchers predicted that pteropods, shelled animals known as sea butterflies, could begin dissolving by 2038 as human-caused carbon-dioxide emissions begin souring the seas in a process known as ocean acidification.

But new research by Seattle scientists concludes that corrosive seas are damaging pteropods right now – decades earlier than expected. And that damage was recorded in the south Atlantic Ocean, where surface pH doesn’t dip as low as it has off the Washington coast or in Puget Sound.

The finding suggests that changing sea chemistry already could be harming pteropods in the Northwest, with potentially vast implications for the marine food chain,” quoting Craig Welch in the Seattle Times.
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– Ramtha has stressed the importance of storing food for over 3 decades
“The important issue of preparedness I taught many years ago is that I asked for all of the people who would listen to put up food and to become sovereign and to have lots of water but to have it out of the ground, and to put up food for all of those concerned in your life, and to be sovereign — utterly sovereign — to save your clothing and to put it up, and to work towards a point that regardless of what would happen with the world you could continue to sustain yourself. Now that is not a new teaching. That happened many years ago in your time. But it is still important because the times that I spoke about are already here and are unfolding.”
– Ramtha
September, 1993
(Excerpt from: Taking the Journey Inward, September 16, 1993. Ramtha Dialogues®, Tape 9322 ed.)

– Ramtha’s Recommendations for Sovereignty – for everyone
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