How World Governments Created The Looming World Famine

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 22, 2011 --
Over the last few years, I've written constantly on the growing likelihood of a global currency collapse.

Western governments have accumulated national debts that are too huge to ever repay, except with currencies whose value will be eroded 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 insure you don't forget the most important inflation hedge of all: food.

If you've been reading the financial press for the past few months, you know the prices of vital food commodities are soaring. The price of corn has gone up 47% since this summer. Soybeans have increased 30%. Wheat is up 43%.

I expect this trend of higher food prices to increase exponentially in the future as the U.S government intentionally drives down the dollar while deceiving the public about supporting a "strong currency."

There's also a good commercial case to be made for owning agricultural assets. Let's start with the largest crop in the United States, corn...

In 2009, U.S. farmers grew 39% of the world's corn, around 307.4 million metric tons. The crop was worth $48 billion. Our maize exports totaled $8.7 billion. Most of the corn crop in the U.S. is used to feed farm animals, around 43% of 2009 production. Most of the rest (41%) was used for food, consumer, and industrial products (toothpaste, adhesives, cosmetics, starches, sweeteners, oils, beverages, industrial alcohol, fuel ethanol, and so on.). Otherwise it was exported. The U.S. sold most of its corn to Japan, Mexico, and South Korea.

The second-largest maize source, China, produced 165.9 million metric tons, or half the U.S. output. The European Union was a distant third, yielding 62.7 million metric tons. Brazil came fourth, at 51 million metric tons.

In 2009, a severe drought in China ruined millions of bushels of corn. Stockpiles were suddenly reduced as the government sold maize to keep the price from rocketing higher. Into 2010, there have been no improvements. The Chinese have turned out to be net importers of corn for the first time in 16 years. It is calculated by experts that China will require 6 million to 8 million metric tons of corn this year.

The Chinese corn 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 went upmore than 200%.

This factor of increasing global demand paired with the Fed's funny money printing makes sharp increases in price levels in these commodities (and funds like the DBA) likely. Prices could ramp up far enough to trigger international global instability.

When you read about this in the next year or two, don't say you weren't told, and don't say you aren't prepared.

For there is well researched evidence that new farming technology (actually, it has been around as a technically perfected system for the past 30 years, so it's not so 'new', it's just that it has largely been ignored), could contribute to forestalling the world food shortage and food disturbances that are now definitely in the pipeline.

This technology makes it feasible to harvest 40% more food LOCALLY than any other way of agriculture known, FAST, and without being concerned too much about soil or water availability. It uses 90% less space and land to do this than any other method 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 aware of this technology, more could be done to teach it, and use it.

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

You can produce food using this technology in derelict buildings and spaces in inner cities, right next to the markets for fresh food-city dwellers. No commodity speculation is needed to deliver locally-grown cheap fresh food right to the local population.

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

It's called aquaponics. It's being tried everywhere, from Hawaii, through Milwaukee, and Wales in England, to islands in the Caribbean.

No soil is needed. It does not require agrichemicals. 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 needed Insect control is easy. The only regular material cost is fish feed. Everything grows in the fish water!

For more exciting aquaponics information see http:/www.floatingworlds.co.uk

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