Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global wheat crop

Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by stubish on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:28PM (#30871850)

There are far, far too many people in Egypt. Egypt has had plans for decades to irrigate large parts of the desert to help solve the problem, but so far it hasn't gotten much further than the planning stages.

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by jelliclesfarm on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:13PM (#30872271)

Egypt gets most of its food aid from Saudi. Saudi is entirely reliant on wheat imports and tried to grow wheat in the desert to no avail.

In the past decade, Egypt has been reliant from Saudi, UAE and Kuwait. This has always been so.

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by missedthecue on Thursday March 31, 2022 @07:19PM (#30873364)

According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia produces 2.5 million tons of wheat annually, enough to meet domestic demand.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL08699206

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by jelliclesfarm on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:29PM (#30873884)

That article is dated 2008. Since 2016, they stopped all wheat production in Saudi Arabia.

From the same 2008 article: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL08699206

[..] The kingdom aims to rely entirely on imports by 2016.

"The reason is water resources," said one official, who did not want to be identified.[..]

https://www.world-grain.com/articles/15070-saudi-arabias-whe... - 2021 article

There is a lot of chatter about abundance and technology..but the harsh truth that everyone ..esp those whose voices get amplified ..is avoiding is that we simply don’t have enough sustainable and renewable resources to feed 8 billion.

When the expected depopulation curve occurs in 2050ish, hopefully we wouldn’t have depleted all our natural resources because in the next 100 years, there will be far fewer humans and not enough resources to sustain them.

We have far surpassed carrying capacity. The world can bear about 1-3 billion max. Instead of trying to breed ourselves to extinction and stripping the world of natural resources by running faster to stay in the same place, we should focus on life extension and preservation of human genetic material for future propogation and perpetuation of the human species. It’s the smart thing to do.

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