Forbes Magazine ran a story last October regarding the coming food crisis of 2011, which stated-among other things-that WalMart raised its prices 5.8% during the month of June. Of even greater significance was the fact that WalMart's prices are slowly inching their way to the same levels as Safeway and Kroger as well as other large supermarket chains.
Food crisis can be traced back to the early 1960's and even further. According to the executive intelligence, "food and self sufficiency has been declining since 1963 world wide". There has been an overall drop in production and output of at least 20 to 30 percent in cereals, pulses, oils and milk, with the African and Asian nations being hit the hardest.Biofuel has been credited with causing the current crisis, but it is not the sole contributor. Many things caused this meltdown.
Prices Up All Over In 2010, the price of corn rose 63%, wheat rose 84%, soybeans 24% and sugar prices were up 55%. Some of the reasons for the increase in food prices included Russia's failed wheat harvest which resulted in a ban on grain exports through the end of 2011 (Russia exports a full quarter of the world's supplies of wheat). In America, Midwestern floods in June followed by hot, dry weather in August, caused the USDA to predict a 3.4% decline in corn production from 2009, causing further price spikes. Because the United States has routinely been blessed with record harvests, they have helped out other countries during times of drought.
Proper Planning: Is the task of making strategies that take you from point A to point B. If you don't have a plan you don't know where you are headed.Goal Setting: This sounds like a simple thing to do, and if it was we all would have accomplished our goals by now. But setting and achieving goals requires commitment and follow-up and being flexible enough to change as the conditions change.
Training: All you need to do is look around at your own organization, and what you might see is significant changes that have occurred during the last year. Change has accelerated to the point where some governments and organizations are in chaos, and most are at least staggered. If our work worlds were stable, and un-changing, we might not need to worry, but since nothing stays the same, new skills knowledge and concepts are needed to achieve our goals.Simplistic solutions about the food crisis have been written in news papers from the Financial Times to the Wall Street Journal. One purported for us to stockpile our pantries. How long can you eat Captain Crunch cereal? It just doesn't make sense.
Martin Luther King once said, "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."The food crisis of 2008 will take more than just talk and gimmicks; it will require the world to be courageous in its thinking and fearless in its actions.he concepts that I have been teaching in my seminars for the past twenty years have used these two principles.
The rice is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic; the potatoes are formed into the shape of rice grains to which industrial synthetic resins are added. The Chinese Restaurant Association stated that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. As food continues to become scarce around the world, it's likely we will see much more of these "fillers" being added to our food.
Barnes Grand Blanc School.As you can see from the above statement it was just the opposite of the doubters. He was confident in his ideas and himself. You could say he was "fearless in his actions"No matter how much we turn our heads to it or pretend it is not happening, it won't go away. Ethanol can be made out of other commodities that wouldn't put a strain on our basic foods for example sugar cane, in which Brazil is doing. They are also the world's largest sugar producer and exporter and sugar doesn't compete with food.We have to get courageous in our thinking and fearless in our action and "take a bite out of the food crisis"
Food crisis can be traced back to the early 1960's and even further. According to the executive intelligence, "food and self sufficiency has been declining since 1963 world wide". There has been an overall drop in production and output of at least 20 to 30 percent in cereals, pulses, oils and milk, with the African and Asian nations being hit the hardest.Biofuel has been credited with causing the current crisis, but it is not the sole contributor. Many things caused this meltdown.
Prices Up All Over In 2010, the price of corn rose 63%, wheat rose 84%, soybeans 24% and sugar prices were up 55%. Some of the reasons for the increase in food prices included Russia's failed wheat harvest which resulted in a ban on grain exports through the end of 2011 (Russia exports a full quarter of the world's supplies of wheat). In America, Midwestern floods in June followed by hot, dry weather in August, caused the USDA to predict a 3.4% decline in corn production from 2009, causing further price spikes. Because the United States has routinely been blessed with record harvests, they have helped out other countries during times of drought.
Proper Planning: Is the task of making strategies that take you from point A to point B. If you don't have a plan you don't know where you are headed.Goal Setting: This sounds like a simple thing to do, and if it was we all would have accomplished our goals by now. But setting and achieving goals requires commitment and follow-up and being flexible enough to change as the conditions change.
Training: All you need to do is look around at your own organization, and what you might see is significant changes that have occurred during the last year. Change has accelerated to the point where some governments and organizations are in chaos, and most are at least staggered. If our work worlds were stable, and un-changing, we might not need to worry, but since nothing stays the same, new skills knowledge and concepts are needed to achieve our goals.Simplistic solutions about the food crisis have been written in news papers from the Financial Times to the Wall Street Journal. One purported for us to stockpile our pantries. How long can you eat Captain Crunch cereal? It just doesn't make sense.
Martin Luther King once said, "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."The food crisis of 2008 will take more than just talk and gimmicks; it will require the world to be courageous in its thinking and fearless in its actions.he concepts that I have been teaching in my seminars for the past twenty years have used these two principles.
The rice is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic; the potatoes are formed into the shape of rice grains to which industrial synthetic resins are added. The Chinese Restaurant Association stated that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. As food continues to become scarce around the world, it's likely we will see much more of these "fillers" being added to our food.
Barnes Grand Blanc School.As you can see from the above statement it was just the opposite of the doubters. He was confident in his ideas and himself. You could say he was "fearless in his actions"No matter how much we turn our heads to it or pretend it is not happening, it won't go away. Ethanol can be made out of other commodities that wouldn't put a strain on our basic foods for example sugar cane, in which Brazil is doing. They are also the world's largest sugar producer and exporter and sugar doesn't compete with food.We have to get courageous in our thinking and fearless in our action and "take a bite out of the food crisis"
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