Russia and China Have a Stranglehold on Global Food Security

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Жыл бұрын

"There will be hunger." The world relies on a few nations for most of its fertilizers: Russia, Belarus and China. The invasion of Ukraine highlights how these countries have a chokehold on global food security.
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@nnhk0056 Жыл бұрын

A lot of people in the comments have no idea just how reliant we are on modern fertilizer. If you think anything at all can offset our dependence on them (like crop rotation lol), you really have no idea how far the ship has sailed. The fertilizer supply stopping is an end-of-civilization as we know it scenario, full stop. The majority of the global population will starve inside of 6 months.

@jsg8357 Жыл бұрын

correct

@jesusthugmusic Жыл бұрын

If you say so lol. The old ways arent lost. Only the ignorant will truly suffer.

@Hammy651 Жыл бұрын

Hey look a fear mongoror! Guy If there's 7 billion people on earth now and we live in access, and there were 5 before fertilizer when they didn't live in access...I think we'll be ok.

@robsonwilianwinchester9726 Жыл бұрын

@@jesusthugmusic no he's being smart 🤓 not any manure can be used in huge commercial scale of billions of tonnages like artificial fertilizers also manure from cow 🐄 take much amount of time to break down into fertilizer like 6 months and the cow's Grasslands and cow's need to be more huggge then now bacause we really don't have enough natural fertilizer necessarily feeding 8 billions and growing population!!!

@zhijingchen4563 Жыл бұрын

@@jesusthugmusic the old way is NOT lost. But the organic farming method don't support billions of world population. Similar as the old medicine is not lost, but without modern medicine a d surgery, human life span is 35 yrs old

@aloksen626 Жыл бұрын

Guess people can't eat iPhones and Tesla cars.

@waynesilva9157 Жыл бұрын

Putin says no fertilizer for you.

@tlp3482 Жыл бұрын

Seems like Russia is much more than just one big "petrol station". Malawian government needs to get fertilizer for their nation and ignore these silly sanctions

@baha3alshamari152 Жыл бұрын

Malawi is landlocked country so they can't get anything if their neighbors can't get it first

@kimeli Жыл бұрын

doesn't morocco have like 70 percent of the world's fertilizer.

@jackjhmc820 Жыл бұрын

How much food shortages if no fertilisers were used? Can Sri Lanka ban on fertilisers give an example of what the world would be like if Russia stops exporting ?

@ruifenghuang1029 8 ай бұрын

If you think 35% of world fertilizer is risky, China alone account for about 30% of world total agriculture product

@greatcondor8678 Жыл бұрын

My 16 chickens make enough of the best fertilizer in the world to supply dozens of farms. Don't be fooled by consumer propaganda

@pteechka1 Жыл бұрын

The manure from 16 chickens doesn't add up to much. Enough for a small backyard garden perhaps.

@amosicronery7730 Жыл бұрын

That is another market for Tanzania food!

@drmodestoesq Жыл бұрын

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

@noirto2 Жыл бұрын

you can't be serious, we every so often let crop rot away in the field because we found harvesting it to be too expansive. With that over supply who are you trying to trick with this stranglehold nonsense.

@peterweng4800 6 ай бұрын

have you forgotten nitrogen fertlizer?

@sherrireves1570 Жыл бұрын

Background music is loud enough to muffle words for HOH. Why do that to high quality info video?

@thomasgaudette7367 Жыл бұрын

Background music too loud

@Slebonson Жыл бұрын

Let the American farmer do what they do best and that's FARM!!!!

@osas5211 Жыл бұрын

Lol there’s a lot that goes hand in hand with farming not that simple

@adoe2305 Жыл бұрын

@@osas5211 Like Bill Gates buying all our farmland.

@randomcharacter6501 Жыл бұрын

@@osas5211 It's was how it worked before globalization. Which helped everyone else except the US working and middle class.

@baha3alshamari152 Жыл бұрын

@@randomcharacter6501 Globalization started 4000 years at least Before that the world population was less than 100 millions for sure

@squashduos1258 Жыл бұрын

Start composting the husks of the crops!!! Permaculture has the answer! And yes it can be done on large scale farming. I advise people to read the Masonobu’s book One Straw Revolution.

@patrickbateman1660 Жыл бұрын

It won't fix it on an industrial scale. Sri Lanka tries this and it collapsed the cou try

@jsg8357 Жыл бұрын

ignorant and dumb

@squashduos1258 Жыл бұрын

@@patrickbateman1660 I guess it depends who you ask and is greased by. MIT awarded Masonobu for this breakthrough method and why don’t you follow Geoff Layton a bit to see it’s feasibility. This is no utopian method it is actually a method if applied correctly inexpensive and long sustaining.

@MyName-cw4yr Жыл бұрын

@@squashduos1258 but doesn't function at scale, so we still have the same problem.

@squashduos1258 Жыл бұрын

@@MyName-cw4yr it does I guess you didn’t read my post

@oipr80 Жыл бұрын

With so much food waste and human / farm animal poop 😹😹😹 Come on!

@imafan2610 Жыл бұрын

This is why organic cannot feed the world. It would take tons more of organic matter to grow a crop. Crops grown organically would require more land, more inputs, to get the same yield as crops grown with fertilizer. While organic methods do a better job of enhancing soil health, it is more labor and land intensive and yields are lower. Adding the challenges of the war and climate change (droughts and deluge) into the mix, people are going to starve.

@JJs_playground Жыл бұрын

Canada is the biggest producer of potash. We produce ⅓ of the potash of the world.

@pan2aja Жыл бұрын

They won't sell it for cheap though

@remoreacts91 Жыл бұрын

Surprised Canada didnt make the cut int his video. We have the largest potash producers in the world.

@pteechka1 Жыл бұрын

Yes, they go over that in the video

@kimeli Жыл бұрын

the problem is not potash or nitrogen, its phospate that have limited amount, nitrogen you can just get it from air, potassium is abundant everywhere.

@sammartin2365 Жыл бұрын

Some high power people take advantage of earth it comes at a high cost

@wisdomhappy587 Жыл бұрын

We need to build resilient Soils

@drmodestoesq Жыл бұрын

How's that going to work. The crops that the human race wants to eat extract nutrients from the soil. Ergo, they need to be replaced.

@wisdomhappy587 Жыл бұрын

@@drmodestoesq Its an important question and one that represents the ideology that has caused many of the problems in industrial agriculture. Look into soil science a bit more. One thing you will find is that nitrogen fertilizer is much less necessary with a developed soil because that soil provides an environment for nitrogen fixing bacteria. Another thing is the mycelial network. Plants, Like animals, can not access nutrients on their own, they need microorganisms to mediate the transfer from the soil to their roots. so in a soil that does not have the network, most of the soil can not actually be accessed by the plants, thus wasting the fertilizer we add. Plants can share resources this way and help each other when they are weak, making them more efficient. a healthy soil stores carbon and water also, so it helps more with GHG emission and allows for more efficient use of water.

@hydrangeadragon Жыл бұрын

local eco conscious self sustaining food production is the way forward, we should not be reliant on artificial fertilisers. We need to learn from indigenous knowledge and create symbiotic relationships between plants so they support each other, like the three sisters method etc and use compost and manure to fertilise naturally

@halo2pro9 Жыл бұрын

that won't feed 8 billion people. what you are describing is conducive to a population of just 2 billion

@newsnowtammylynnlynn484 Жыл бұрын

Make your own like they did back in the day

@osas5211 Жыл бұрын

Not all land n soil is compatible and not all farms were thriving back in the day n that’s why the most successful farmer or livestock owners ended up becoming rulers cuz they had bountiful resources more than others

@stevabinok2909 Жыл бұрын

@@osas5211 Additionally, you can not convert soil to not using any fertilizer in six months. With best practices it takee three to six years.

@AppalachianWoman77 Жыл бұрын

@@osas5211 you have to understand the ecosystem to know that it is the best way to make your own fertilizer and all land IS compatible. You just need to know what it needs and then add it in plant form.

@AppalachianWoman77 Жыл бұрын

This is why it is so important to grow your own food.

@daraordarao3240 Жыл бұрын

True

@christianpalmer 6 ай бұрын

People used to back in the day

@AppalachianWoman77 6 ай бұрын

me and my family still do. We also raise our own hogs, rabbits and chickens. I forage and my hubby hunts and fishes.@@christianpalmer

@ropro9817 Жыл бұрын

🇨🇦💪

@chuckrambo4401 Жыл бұрын

What they need is equipment. You can grow anything with what’s there. You must change growing areas between crop seasons as well. Teach them how to be better farmers to begin with.

@jsg8357 Жыл бұрын

ignorant

@deanfowles3707 Жыл бұрын

I don't care anymore, let's get this over with

@infinitequest0424 8 ай бұрын

Organic

@rogergionet Жыл бұрын

Let the cows poo on the grown which keep soil fertile.

@EroticOnion23 Жыл бұрын

"If you feed 2 starving black&browns, now you've got 10 starving black&browns"...😂

@IbnBahtuta Жыл бұрын

Not for much longer.

@serhansmar Жыл бұрын

if we need fertilizers that much we’re already in a bad place :(

@alanmay7929 Жыл бұрын

You also forget that we waste about 1/3 of global food production which mean a lot of fertilizer unnecessarily wasted

@baderjumha6580 Жыл бұрын

Syria has fosfait giving away to russia

@yourmommashouse Жыл бұрын

Phosphate

@TimLongson Жыл бұрын

You DONT need chemical fertilisers; the farmers could be trained in crop rotations, as rotating depleted fields with crops like potatoes & legumes (like peas) which fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. Another solution is to genetically modify the crops so that they can create their own natural nutrients, rather than needing chemical fertilisers. The ONLY reason GM crops are held back is the greed of the chemical companies who would otherwise lose that revenue. My first degree was in Genetics, so I know this tech is easy & inexpensive, so the only boundary is overcoming the greed of private companies!

@MyName-cw4yr Жыл бұрын

Wow, you seriously don't understand the scale at which fertiliser allows us to grow crops..... without fertiliser billions will die....your "solutions" wouldn't begin to scratch the surface of the problem

@TimLongson Жыл бұрын

@@MyName-cw4yr on but I do; genetically modifying crops can feed the world. The only reason they aren't already is corporate greed.

@MyName-cw4yr Жыл бұрын

@@TimLongson and how do you grow anything at scale without the necessary fertiliser? Oh wait, you can't.

@drmodestoesq Жыл бұрын

@@MyName-cw4yr I guess he's proposing a Mathusian solution. Massive population die off. Kind of like Pentti Linkkola.

@baha3alshamari152 Жыл бұрын

You can't create potassium or phosphorus out of thin air nor make plants produce their own nitrate which has negative electric charge so it can't stay long in the soil

@12villages Жыл бұрын

This is exactly why BRICS has been working behind the scenes to create a common currency, backed by gold, and the trade routes insured by its militaries. South america, africa, slav states, asia will adopt it because it will be their natural choice.

@ericmason349 Жыл бұрын

I would hope that the world is not desperate enough that farmers could not incorporate crop rotation and green manure into their soil management. There must be enough animal manure and compost to make a more sustainable source for crops. Inorganic fertilizers are not a long-term solution.

@samuelculper4231 Жыл бұрын

North Korean parasitic worms. All I know is potash is better’n human feces

@pl4nty Жыл бұрын

Tell me you have no cropping experience without telling me lol

@BobQuigley Жыл бұрын

Today we're 8 billion precious humans and every year another 80 million net new precious humans join us. Feeding 8 billion people three meals per day 2,000 calories. Do the math. I'm 70. At my birth there were 2.5 billion. Mass starvation fairly commonplace. Since then fertilizer made from fossil fuels first invented in early 1900's have grown exponentially. Today overwhelming majority of fertilizer is fossil fuels based. In addition millions of tons of it goes to crops that we then feed to animals. In the past animals grazed off of what the sun provided daily. Your recommendations are quaint, reminders of a time long gone. Just another piece of the fossil fuels noose we find ourselves in.

@nnhk0056 Жыл бұрын

If that's what you hope, then you have reason to be terrified. If ammonia nitrate fertilizers went away tomorrow, 3/4 of the global population would be dead within 6 months. That's how much we rely on them.

@baha3alshamari152 Жыл бұрын

Or do whatever Putin wants and he will send you all the fertilizer you want Russia is the biggest producer of fertilizer in the world

@rogeanbhellepicardal221 Жыл бұрын

cannibalism solve both overpopulation and world hunger

@santhoshdasari72 Жыл бұрын

Oye! Arunachal Pradesh is part of India. Not disputed. Get your information straight and correct your maps 😡

@mayflowerlash11 Жыл бұрын

This shortage of fertiliser is a false risk. The demand for fertiliser is a result of 2 things. First the population of the world which needs to be fed. Second, the development of high yield industrial farming. Well surprise, surprise the world's population will be declining this century. This may create an opportunity regarding the second point. As the total arable land is not decreasing, allowing for soil degradation in some locations, perhaps it will be possible to wind back the high yield, high input practices of industrial farming. Do not misinterpret this suggestion as a return to stone age farming, it is not that. Perhaps with the declining population we can look at farming and decide there are advantages to returning to methods a little closer to older more sustainable methods of growing food. This is clearly an advantage associated with declining world population.

@serhansmar Жыл бұрын

maybe we just need water treatment plants and send our treated poo to the crops, I’ve heard it’s possible and has happened 🤷🏻‍♂️

@seven.8228 Жыл бұрын

WEF planned shortage you mean

@minhoonoon9443 Жыл бұрын

Small price (for rich western counties) to pay to stand in solitude with Ukraine. Unfortunately the poor countries are the ones paying the high price.

@pan2aja Жыл бұрын

Not really. We are not drowned in debt.