How World Governments Created the Coming International Famine

Over the last few years, I've distributed alerts on the growing likelihood of a global currency collapse.

The governments of Europe and the United States have gone into hock so deep they are drowning in debt, except with currencies whose value will be inflated away by money-printing.

Sink your savings into actual real-world investments like railroads, gold, silver, and various forms of energy. Owning these "real assets" is the easiest way to avoid seeing your money dissolve. But check that you don't forget the most important insurance of all: food.

If you've been reading the financial press recently, you know the prices of vital food supply commodities are soaring. The price of corn has risen 47% since this summer. Soybeans have increased 30%. Wheat has jumped 43%.

I anticipate this rise in food prices to make year by year leaps, as the U.S government intentionally drives down the dollar, while lying to you the whole time about wanting a "strong currency." There's also a good supply/demand case to be made for owning agricultural products and part of the food supply. Let's start with the largest crop in the United States, maize...

In 2009, U.S. farmers grew 39% of the world's maize around 307.4 million metric tons. The crop was worth $48 billion. Our maize exports totaled $8.7 billion.

Most harvested maize in the U.S. is used to feed cattle around 43% of 2009 output. Nearly as much (41%) was used for food, consumer, and industrial products (toothpaste, adhesives, cosmetics, starches, sweeteners, oils, beverages, industrial alcohol, fuel ethanol, and so on.). The remainder was exported.. The U.S. sold most of its maize to Japan, Mexico, and South Korea.

The second-largest maize grower, China, produced 165.9 million metric tons, or half the U.S. harvest. The European Union was a distant third, growing 62.7 million metric tons. Brazil ended up fourth, at 51 million metric tons.

In 2009, a serious drought in China killed millions of bushels of corn. Stockpiles dwindled to alarming levels as the government sold maize to forestall a ruinous price escalation, and subsidize the food supply. Into 2010, things have not got better. The Chinese have become net importers of corn for the first time in 16 years. Experts predict China will require 6 million to 8 million metric tons of corn this year.

The Chinese maize famine reminds the world of the food shortages of 2006-2008. On the whole global prices for wheat, corn, and soybeans spiked more than 100%. Rice prices spikedmore than 200%.

The combination of increasing global demand paired with the Fed's quantitative easing makes a huge move higher in these commodities (and funds like the DBA) likely. Prices could jump to a high enough point to trigger a international crisis.

When you read about this in the near future, don't say you weren't aware, and don't say you aren't able to cope.

For there is ample proof that new farming technology (actually, it has been around as a proven system for the past 30 years, so it's not so 'new', it's just that it has largely been ignored), could lead to forestalling the world food crisis and food disturbances that are now definitely in the pipeline.

This technology makes it simple to produce 40% more food LOCALLY than any other way of agriculture known, FAST, and without being bothered too much about soil or water availability. It uses 90% less space and land to do this than any other way of agriculture. It uses 90% less water than any other kind of food production. Expensive inputs like artificial fertilizer and pest control chemicals are not necessary. It uses 70% less energy and effort to achieve this than any other form of food production method.

If more farmers and politicians were told of this technology, more could be done to teach it, and use it.

If it were accepted globally, the requirement to depend on higher and higher priced food imports would be reduced dramatically. This is a LOCAL method of growing food, which only uses 10% of the space and water usually required for conventional agriculture.

You can produce food using this method in derelict buildings, and spaces in old parking lots, right next to the markets for fresh food-the majority of people, who live in cities. No commodity speculation is needed to deliver locally-grown cheap fresh food, right to the local population.

What is this little-known method of growing food, fast, cleanly and economically, right in the city where it is needed?

It's called aquaponics. It's being taken up in many places, from Hawaii, through Milwaukee, and Wales in England, to islands in the Caribbean.

It does not use soil. No agrichemicals and polluting insecticides are needed. Plants grow twice as fast as normal at half the spacing. You don't need to dig or weed at all with this method. No tilling or plouging are necessary Bug control is easy. The only regular thing to buy is fish feed. Everything thrives in the fish water!

Aquaponics is intensive SUSTAINABLE fish farming (many species of edible fish can be used for this)plugged in the same system with hydroponic vegetable agriculture. The plants grow in pumped fish farm outfall water. There are no toxic outfalls or waste water effluents leaked to the environment. The fish poo water gets recirculated over and over to grow more food. The plants purifythe water, which is pumped back to the fish.

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