Climate change provokes urgent action on food systems everywhere- says Bill Gates
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
To think, the Telegraph used to be a well respected, serious newspaper:
As 2023 draws to a close, with the world hotter than ever and on track to exceed 1.5 degrees warming, world leaders are increasingly concerned and strive ever harder to agree on ambitious climate action. They have focused on an increasingly pressing issue: food.
The interactions between food and climate had surfaced around the UN’s Food Systems Summit in 2021, where it became clear that climate change threatens agricultural productivity, disrupts food supply chains, reduces resilience, erodes the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food workers, and threatens food and nutrition security (especially for women and children). The impact of these interactions on people has been exacerbated by the impacts of Covid-19, increased levels of conflict, and increases in the cost-of-living.
At the Cop28 annual climate meeting, in Dubai, the governments of 154 countries endorsed the groundbreaking Cop28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action. They committed to address both food system vulnerabilities to climate change and the impacts of food systems on climate and nature. This is an important first, and a sign of the concerns being felt everywhere.
In Europe the concerns are felt in higher food prices, and strained household budgets as a result of income poverty (which threatens more than 20 per cent of the population). In Sub-Saharan Africa, smallholder farmers whose communities depend on agriculture are bearing the brunt of record high temperatures and extreme weather events.
In addition, modern food systems drive 90 per cent of deforestation and 60 per cent of biodiversity loss, and account for 70 per cent of the world’s use of fresh water. They are also reliant on fossil fuels which are used for production of pesticides; synthetic fertilisers and plastics; and in processing, transport, distribution and cooking. Overall, food systems contribute over one third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The rest of the article is just a continuation of the same drivel.
It probably won’t come as any surprise to learn that the article is sponsored by Bill Gates’ Global Health Security.
Despite climate breakdown, food production around the world continues to set record highs year after year:
https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare
Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where they claim that smallholder farmers are bearing the brunt of record high temperatures and extreme weather events, the value of agricultural output (at fixed prices) stood at a record high in 2021:
The threat to the world’s food supply does not come from climate change. The biggest threats are the selfish policies of Bill Gates and his elitist chums.
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The article does not allow comments, otherwise it would have been slated for the load of nonsense it is.
Indeed, the Telegraph is trending to fewer comment columns, and closing down some other columns after a short ‘open’ period.
Perhaps the DT, already funded by Gates, is preparing itself for sell-off…..
To the UAE apparently.
May as well just subscibe to the Grauniad.
globalhealth@telegraph.co.uk
Funny how the impact of the war in Ukraine has nothing to do with it.
Meanwhile on planet Earth I understand food production continues to increase
I suspect that increasing food prices are not due to limits in supply but are a direct consequence of the energy policies and cost of fertilizer and diesel.
‘Climate change provokes urgent action on food systems everywhere- says Bill Gates’
Gamecock can translate: Gates uses climate change scare to attempt to get world government control of food supply.
Billions will die. “Food security” means you don’t eat.
I notice that my mid-lattitudes garden is much more productive in June/July than january/February
You may be able to get a government grant to fix that.
After reading the post on the DEN and commenting how it now seems that the WEB have now bought and paid for the (any) government, it seems they’ve now bought the DT.
CEN! WEF! Sheesh!
When vast acreages are being used up for solar panels and corn for change to bio-diesel, gasoline, etc., there remains a food surplus as shown by most wholesale food prices.
Why doesn’t Bill Gates just go, curl up and die somewhere? He is a real threat to the world.
I really don’t understand what has happened to Gates. He seemed sensible enough with his efforts on malaria and AIDS but now he seems to have jumped off the deep end into full-blown megalomania. I can’t even begin to imagine what his agenda is or what he thinks all of this will achieve.
You do not understand the mind set of Gates. He wants everything, the whole world and also that we actually love him! Nothing for these greedy people is enough. The paedophile Gates gives nothing away, for charity read tax avoidance!
‘In Europe the concerns are felt in higher food prices, and strained household budgets as a result of income poverty’
Now I wonder why this might be? Two words – one beginning with an N and the other Z.
Whenever ‘ambitious climate action’ is mentioned, absurdity follows.
For those who are unaware:
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=Daily%20telegraph
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=guardian
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=bbc
Warmer climates should mean higher yields – or growing things that suit what’s happening. I believe that the Romans grew grapes as far north as Yorkshire and also in East Anglia. This year, with the warm September weather, I noticed some farmers in Somerset were getting a second hay crop. We have to learn to work with the climate – and also stop using so much land for meat production and growing biofuels. Bring on the heat!
From the very beginnings of the global warming scare, the experts failed to note that a warmer earth is a better earth. They scare people with good news. Ditto CO2; more is better.