The Humanity is on the verge of the Global Food Crisis & War. At any moment, the hungry millions go for war for food, a very serious issue to be addressed immediately.Strategies have been proposed.

1. THE GLOBAL FOOD BOMB
AND THE VIOLENT HUNGRY MILLIONS
DR. RAJU M. MATHEW

2. THE GLOBAL FOOD BOMB
• For the first time in the entire human history, food has emerged as
a violent and terrible bomb capable of making global explosions,
several times severe than the nuclear or hydrogen bombs.
• History tells us though famine and starvation are as old the human
history, they were confined with certain localities or regions or
countries without any global dimensions and impacts.
• For Information Technology and Globalization, hunger and famine
have become global in nature, affecting the entire world or the
humanity and nobody can keep aloof from it. Leaving others in
hunger, nobody can sleep and enjoy food, for food has emerged as
a new bomb upsetting all equations, affecting peace and
development.
• Unless the international community realizes the urgency and
complexities of the problem and takes global initiatives to ensure
food for all, the present global economic crisis becomes severe
and lasting long without any solution, as it is not a simple financial
or credit or fiscal or technical or macro-economic problem.

3. CLIMATIC CHANGES , NATURAL CALAMITIES
AND FOOD PRODUCTION
• Quick climatic changes, including global warming up and increasing
natural calamities in the form of floods, landslides, wild forest fires and
prolonging draughts are a reality. It is estimated that within five
years, there would be a decline of wheat production to the extent of 70%
, potato to the extent of 60% and rice to 40%. Diary production will also
be affected severely. Unless global strategies are formulated and
implemented, millions will be wiped with hunger, famine and lack of
drinking water, leading to war, terror, lootings and blood sheds.
• Most of the governmental and inter-governmental agencies remain
ineffective to deal with the impending food crisis and human tragedies.
For, they are mainly concerned only with the global economic
crisis, stimulation packages, job creations and a set of fiscal or
monetary policies that have nothing to do with emerging serious
global food crisis. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN
is getting side-tracked without much voice in formulating the national
and global strategies on food and agriculture.

4. EXTREME HOT AND COLD
• The desert phenomena of extreme hot and cold has been
extending not only in Asian and African countries but also
even in the European countries.
• As a result, the cultivation of apple, wheat, and potato in the
western countries has become uneconomical. In stead, they
have to go for the cultivation of rice, tapioca, mango,
banana or plantain and pineapple, the present crops of the
tropical or subtropical regions.
• It is time in relaying less on the cows or cattle but on goats
for milk or meat, besides turning towards poultry and camel.
These can be extended even in tropical and sub-tropical
regions.

5. THE HUNGRY MILLIONS
• Hunger of the masses will be the greatest human tragedy,
challenging the very survival of nations, cultures, religions,
industries, financial markets and the high technology.
• When people are getting fully aware of the hunger of the
masses, no religion or ideology can keep them calm with
the fear of the God or the Hell or leaving to fate or
fortune, as had been happened for several centuries,
one of the major role played by religions and ideologies in
diverting attention of the masses.
• The Hungry Masses will invade cities, nations, military
bases, factories and farm lands just for food and water, for
hunger can be powerful enough to unite people across
races, religions and nationalities, irrespective of rich or
poor countries, the east or the west.

6. THE INTENSITY AND CONSEQUENCES
• For the first time in the entire human history, thanks to the technological
and social networking and inter-connections , in stead of the millions of
autonomous tiny islands, the humanity has emerged as a single entity or
locality globally. The crisis of the few has become the problem of the
entire humanity. This is more true in the case of hunger.
• Unfortunately, national or international policy makers, strategic experts,
political or religious leaders and rulers have not yet realized the intensity,
complexity and consequences of the hunger of the masses.
• The problem is getting aggravated and worsened as a result of the
substantial decline of the world food production and mismanagement in
global food distribution for the poor logistics, money power of some
countries and selfish and self-centered trade policies and the failure of
the UN and WTO.
• Moreover, the hungry millions have been turning towards violence and
lawlessness for no police or military force can control the unruly hungry
masses behave like hungry wolfs.

7. IMMEDIATE AGENDA FOR ACTION
• The Time is running out leaving no rooms for
time-consuming discussions and brainstorming
sessions.
• What is required is the immediate global actions,
accepting the realities of climatic changes and
decline of the fertile farm lands for urbanizations
and the natural calamities.
• All the vacant lands must be brought under
cultivation of the high yielding and the most
economic food products that needs lesser water,
fertilizer and pesticides.

8. TROPICAL FARMING
• Extending tropical farming in almost all parts of
the world, including the massive cultivation of
tapioca, banana, tropical vegetables, oil seeds,
mango, sugarcane, besides developing poultry
and goat farming, food production can be
increased considerably.
• Equal emphasis must be given in the proper
storage ,processing, transportation and delivery
of food products globally so as to ensure their
availability.

9. RURAL AND FARM LANDS
DEVELOPMENT
• To ensure the time bound farm development, increase
food production and income and employment
generations for the rural millions, a ten fold
investment at the rural and farming sectors is an
inevitability globally without any excuse.
• When massive investment in the rural and farming
sectors lead to the development of new farm and
agro-based technologies, value-addition of farm
products and above all developing highly efficient
distribution networks of farm or food products. This is
the most effective global strategy for tiding over the
global economic crisis.

10. GLOBAL INITATIVES
• To educate the entire humanity on the impending global
food crisis and to launch counter- strategies, all
educational institutions, starting from kindergarten to
universities must launch mass awareness programs
besides developing new courses, curriculums and
training programs addressing the Global Food Crisis.
• All the major religions, especially Islam, Christianity and
etc must launch campaign programs besides action plans
to meet the Global Food Crisis.
• The UN, the FAO, the World Economic Forum, WTO, IMF,
the World Bank, the national Governments, Chamber of
Industry and Commerce must take joint action programs.