BREAKDOWN: A Food Crisis on the Horizon?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is just one of the factors pointing in the direction of greater food insecurity.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at something that could cause a new set of “big picture power shifts” – a growing global food crisis. He explores a set of causal factors including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, inflation and environmental policies that are combining to form a perfect storm.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, August 19th, and today we are discussing the potential |
| 0:28.0 | food crisis on the horizon. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, |
| 0:33.4 | please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into |
| 0:37.6 | the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go |
| 0:41.9 | to bit.ly.com slash breakdown pod. Lastly, a disclosure as always. In addition to them being a sponsor |
| 0:47.8 | of the show, I also work with FTX. So, happy Friday, everyone. Today we are looking at a topic that is important, future-oriented, |
| 0:59.4 | certainly has the potential to shape power shifts, |
| 1:03.2 | but is kind of lurking behind the scenes. |
| 1:06.3 | And that is the potential for a global food crisis. |
| 1:10.2 | So what we're going to do today is look at the elements that might be contributing to a global food crisis. So what we're going to do today is look at the elements |
| 1:12.6 | that might be contributing to a potential food crisis, as well as the evidence that it might be |
| 1:17.4 | coming on. This is one of those episodes that's obviously a little bit outside of the normal |
| 1:22.2 | sphere for the breakdown in terms of our day-in-day-out coverage of the macro scene or Bitcoin, |
| 1:28.5 | but which I think really fits this theme of big-picture power shift, so I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:33.0 | Food crises have been on people's minds easily since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine |
| 1:38.3 | crisis, but for those who have been paying attention, there were worrying signs even |
| 1:43.3 | before this happened. |
| 1:45.1 | In 2020, the number of people experiencing undernourishment went up for the first time in six |
| 1:51.7 | years. In 2019, it was around 8.4% of people that experienced undernourishment, and by 2020, |
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