Widespread famines of "biblical proportions"

thesilentone

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What if anything is the UK doing to help??

Widespread famines of "biblical proportions" - that is the warning by the United Nations, which says COVID-19 could cause an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

It says the number of people who cannot get enough to eat could double by the end of the year - that is more than quarter of a billion people.

Some 21,000 people already die of hunger every day, and that number could soar if people do not get help.

Food supplies are limited by lockdowns and people's incomes are drying up. Poor countries affected by conflict, economic crisis and climate change are particularly at risk.

The UN says this could drive a wave of refugees and threatens an exponential rise in social unrest.

The UN World Food Programme has urged donor nations to pay $1.9bn of already-pledged commitments.

So, how can the availability of food be safeguarded? And can a famine crisis be averted?

 
It might help if people did not walk around on food crops.

I think we need some public information films about how to behave when walking on public footpaths in food crops.

Ie
Stay on the footpath, If social distancing is a problem wait for the approaching person in a suitable passing point, if necessary carefully walk into the crop, wait & then walk back to the footpath in the same steps.
Keep dogs under close control, ideally on a lead.
Take all rubbish including dog mess home.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • Up to 25%

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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