The bigger issue is fertilizer availability. Russia and Ukraine were major exporters of fertilizer and the Russian bombing campaign has destroyed the plants that manufacture fertilizer. So, there isn’t enough fertilizer available for the (non-African) countries that need it to feed their populations. China banned fertilizer exports back in 2022, but they don’t have enough on hand for 2023 planting. They’re going to have to figure out how to transport lots of natural fertilizer to the fields from hundreds of miles away. Oh, and their hog population is being devastated by disease, so there isn’t enough natural fertilizer anyway.
Yes, fertiliser should have absolutely been covered in this video. There is also the issue that many governments have or are likely to put in place there own food export bans (India did this last year), and now some EU states are looking to restrict Ukrainian grains on their market to protect their own agriculture sectors.
I agree as well. I would ad that sooner or later there is still a risk that we have a problem with food suply to africa, because their population is growing rapidly. There wouldn't be a problem with the food suply as well as the prices if their population wouldn't grow that much. Which can lead again to new immigration waves...
Can't be done. that would require solving water and fertilizer problem for Northern Africa (which maybe, Czechs got prize of Expo for one such technology in Dubai a while back) and wildlife everywhere South of Sahel, most of which is protected due to being endangered (eg. extinction for most), if agriculture were to take hold to the extent, where it could compete with Europe, even without subsidies, this would have to change. And it would be extremely expensive to boot. Ernesto Sirolli illustrates this very well. They brought seeds, found very fertile land, taught the locals how, even paid them, to grow crops... and then the hypos came...
We've tried. They call it "lecturing" and complaining that our aid and loans come with requirements.. like more democracy for more stable and investable societies.
Make no mistake, there will be a massive famine in future unless Africa becomes self sufficent. Its insane to have exploding population when lot of the food is imported.
Most of Africa does not eat wheat. For example Nigeria the most populous country in Africa and their main staple crops are yams and cassava. Not products produced in Russia or Ukraine but in Nigeria. The importance of Russia/Ukraine to Africas food supply is massively overstated.
Not true. Nigeria grows durum wheat but imports common wheat. If they can better engineer durum for more uses then that would secure most of west africa
Even if I took this as true, that's Nigeria, look at nations like Egypt or Sudan and other east African nations! Not to mention the fact, that Nigeria is relatively next to another agricultural powerhouse, France!
You better look up Egypt , they would starve without food imports from Russia and Ukraine. The definition of a overpopulated country is when they have more people than the country can produce food to feed them. Imported food for Variety is not like importing food to Survive.
I don't know about other countries, but in Cameroon, we are self sufficient. We eat what we produce and export food to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, chad and central African Republic. We import industrial products not food products
@@gaza1677 we consume bread but it's not imported. We produce flour from sorghum, sweet potatoes, wheat, cassava etc which are all locally grown. Like I said, I don't know for other countries, I'm talking here about Cameroon. Let Russia and Ukraine fight till eternity, we will never starve.
@saoham659 Sahel and Nigeria and DRC and Somalia + Sudan Ethiopia Madagascar Also hunger outside Africa exists only in Haiti Venezuela and war zones like Yemen and Myanmar and Afghanistan and parts of Ukraine
Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy? One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind. I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist. So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark. In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all. The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise. Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct. Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.
I don't know why any African would ever support Russia. They have been detrimental to the development of Africa by stoking conflict and flooding the continent with kalashnikovs..
@@poetryaddict1 Because most African issues can be traced back to Europeans colonialism. It easier to blame unpopular Europeans than Russia - the champion of autocrat leaders on the world stage.
@@badluck5647 colonial issues and food scarcity is 2 different things ... Look no further than Egypt ..went from sending rockets to Russia ..to now sending them to Ukraine ...when did this happen ..when Russia started up the bullshit with wheat shipments again ... Food don't lie ..you have it or you don't and the consequences are dire
The era of western propaganda is over Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe Ask Beggar macron His country can no longer afford anything Africa stated “ pay up “ We have the communities, tangible assets Btw Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺 A loyal friend From west Africa 🦅
North Africa were they are mostly Arabs, they are the ones who are dependent on wheat from Ukraine! For Sub-Sahara it is mostly Maize & Cassava so our problem is Fertilizer! For us Ukraine is not an issue at all! Y'all just love making it seem like we need to support Ukraine!
Hasn't it already done? The problem are as the video described: backward technologies, lack of capital, bad infrastructures, and above all, political instability.
I live in Africa and all the things you mentioned don't scare me but except for one, "Political Instability". I always pray and hope for the peace in the country I live in remains the same and stable. I always fear of something happening.🤦🏾♂️
@@David-gy6fv But it avoided it with less population that had less demands that they have in modern life. I mean, consider that the problem is that what was a good solution 50 or 100 years ago or more, may not be a fitting solution whitin the last 20 years.
@@LuisRomeroLopez some of this crops are well adapted to local climate and we had control of the seeds, now we depend on seed supply, fertilizers, chemicals .
@@David-gy6fv There is a reason, why local "adapted" crops are abandoned for others. Not enough yields from the crop, when compared to another and not enough value of the crop, to become specialty crop. End of story. Self sufficiency has a cost.
Famine doesn't have to happen. In fact, we're at a unique point in history when every country including those that aren't grain producers can becme agriculturally self-sufficient. Driven by new research in indoor farming and new developments in renewable energy technology particularly in the development of LED lights and solar electricity, indoor farming is already competitive with traditional outdoor farming on a small scale and farming at larger scale is being experimented all the time. The benefits of indoor farming are immense over outdoor farming, for one practically the entire cost of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A lot of the uncertainty and risk due to variable climatic and seasonal conditions are eliminated. Many crops can be grown year round, isolated from devasting bugs, disease, and extreme conditions like excessive heat or cold, and flood or drought. Water requirements can be minimal due to zero loss to evaporation. Today, most of the knowledge how to farm indoors efficiently and economically is only in developed countries. Undeveloped countries should be aware that these new options exist and might even make enough sense to obtain a loan from established financial institutons to develop these kinds of projects. No one should have to resort to predatory BRICS projects and loans to feed their own people using these new technologies.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Energy is still a major factor and if you want to do this renewable, you have trouble. 1) not all places are well suited for production of energy from renewable source. In Africa, there is problem with sand scratching solar panels, meaning you'd need some kind of engineering solution for that, or overbuild power generation or replace panels more frequently, than in other areas less exposed to sand. Abrasion is a problem for solar or anything involving moving parts, which make wind also problematic. 2) neither wind nor solar produce energy reliably, they are intermittent and don't cut against each other, meaning, you need some kind of energy storage, be it a huge water tower with a generator, which gets filled during the day and releases stored water over night (I have actually thought about water as a buffer for wind and solar a while back, or you need more batteries. Both solutions increase running costs of such production facility, hence why these are usually used for more of a cash crops like vegetables! The way I see it, vertical farming and other indoor applications are evolution of greenhouse technology and, therefore, will be more likely used to produce similar commodities, as are currently produced in greenhouses. Problem is, none of these are used to produce flour and from it basics like bread, pasta or tortillas... or any flatbread in general, and which is most efficient to transport of agricultural products!
@@looseycanon As I tried to explain, technology now is more than sufficient to support sustained indoor farming because the operating costs for electricity generation powering indoor lights is more than made up by the complete or nearly complete elimination of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and conservation of water to the point very little water needs to be added from growing season to season. The economics are there and there are numerous studies and demos people can access that describe exactly what to do to get specific results. Some desert nations with enormous wealth like Saudi Arabia are already running early experiments. It won't be long before even countries with enormous land resources and favorable climates might still transition to indoor farming replacing traditional farming methods. As for stuff like sand abrasion, that's probably not an issue. I haven't studied what might be recommended but I knoww that silicon dioxide coating for vehicle windshields and painted surfaces is becoming quite cheap. Applying these kinds of coatings would easily fill in any scratches and provide a hard, resistant surface, like fighting sand with ceramics.
@@tonysu8860 Technology is not there. Sure, you can have LEDs, that emit same light as our sun, but that is now decade or more old technology normally used in greenhouses. Spoiler alert, never used for production of produce like corn or wheat, which are used for feed and more importantly flour, which in turn is used make the basics like pasta and bread. What is grown in greenhouses, and indoor farming is nothing else than advanced version of greenhouse farming, are vegetables like pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers and leafy vegetables. What is never grown there, given how little each unit of yields, are grains. Density of seeding helps in this regard, but it is not sufficient to cover any significant population. And then, there are the problems with energy, where in the desert, both solar and wind suffer from greater wear and tear and are intermittent, meaning you have to create an energy storage system, which further increases cost of the investment and by extension of produce grown. The yields from grains are simply too low to effectively utilize indoor farming, especially if final price is of concern, given their use. And then there is the problem with specially designed, more expensive solar panels and more expensive maintenance on wind turbines, and shortened lifespan of both, costs of which, again, need to be covered by the cost of produce grown! Yeah, that is something that the Saudis can do, cause this is expensive like hell and Saudis are loaded like ships wit cash! But the problem of available food is not limited to the Gulf nations! Nations like Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Algeria can't afford this kind of food production, especially not at scale necessary. No, it would be better, to find a resource, which can be mined and refined within their own borders and import food from abroad, which is precisely, what Zimbabwe did with Lithium, when they introduced ban on raw lithium exports (which has it's own problems reminiscent of pre WW1 economic model, but that's a different discussion).
If Africa cannot feed its population the solution is. Increase its own food production or decrease is human production. Sending food there is wrong solution in the long run.
@@Suksass If the population drops to 1/4 of what is is now, food production will no longer be an issue. If the population doubles nature has a method to control the infestation called disease and starvation.
@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 You realise this is 21st century and we no longer abide by nature rules? We've spend centuries developing new ways to ginore nature. The other thing is that population drops are something most nations suffer if happens. And you might have not noticed this but the worse country does, the more children are given biirth to ensure survival of some. So again, it's not really optional.
Yeah, another famine in Africa, but the population doubles itself every decade. When there was a famine in Ireland the population was halved. Much more effective way against famine is to teach Africans to use contraceptives
I think this is a great idea. Someone needs to teach them how to use contraceptives. I suggest you do that😂. Take the next flight to Africa and teach them how to use pills. I guess Western countries eat more propaganda than food.
Which is unfortunately controversial there because they often see it as some sort of genocide to limit family sizes by any means, even though they're spending a lot more of their limited wealth juggling resources between many kids and leaving little to invest on improving individual productivity and developing reliable market connections.
Maybe this is a message to Africa: GYOF (Grow Your Own Food)? They could do it, it's a huge continent. But they have been spending their time killing each other instead of providing food for their people. A lesson to learn.
Different African countries are doing great and may switch to growing there own food. Kenya, Botswana and a lot of others have rich crop growing soil, and are moving to in house farmings.
The biggest importers are Sub-Saharan Africa countries. They import food because they live near a desert. Your statement is like saying that Las Vegas should grow more food to be more independent.
Guys when people say Africa their talking about the region in general ..don't get so butt hirtt ...yeah we know it's not one country ...it's a region get over it
No not be specific ! What you want him to name all 54 nations ? Or how about all the different tribes in Africa ... Get bent every knows it's not a country ..only morons think other people don't know this. We say Africa because we're not gonna say all 54 nations ...do you say oromia tigray afar Somali Amhara and the other tribes when talking about Ethiopia? No you say Ethiopia bevause it's convenient. WE KNOW AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY
Guess what if a famine happens in Libya it's still happening in Africa now isn't it ? This list ranked the most food insecure nations 1 Afghanistan 2 Burkina Faso 3 Burundi 4 Cameroon 5 Central African Republic 6 Chad 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 8 Djibouti 9 Eritrea 10 Ethiopia 11 Guinea 12 Iraq 13 Kenya 14 Lesotho 15 Liberia 16 Madagascar 17 Malawi 18 Mali 19 Mauritania 20 Mozambique 21 Myanmar 22 Nepal 23 Niger 24 North Korea 25 Republic of the Congo 26 Sierra Leone 27 Somalia 28 South Sudan 29 Sudan 30 Swaziland 31 Syria 32 Uganda 33 Yemen 34 Zimbabwe 26/34 are in Africa ... See a common theme ? See why we say Africa ..do you want him to name everyone of these African nations in the title that only allows 100 characters ?
Nigeria has developed it's agricultural sector tremendously over the past few decades, but it still has tremendously more to do. Much of the development has been the result of subsidisation of imports of fertilizer, pesticide, agricultural equipment, etc. This is a situation fairly similar to Sri Lanka, in that it has substituted (partially, still WIP) importation of food for importation of the inputs to food production. Meanwhile, food processing remains critically underdeveloped, and logistics prices to move what food is created and/ or processed remains sky high and unreliable. None of this is to undermine the progress that it has made, but it needs to do a few things to get to where it needs to be, which is still some way's off: 1) Improve the security situation, particularly in food producing areas and along distribution networks. Without this, organic investment in farming and food processing operations will be diminished due to heightened risk and lower profit margins. 2) Transport networks must be improved, this includes transport facilities along the length of the Niger and Benue rivers, as well as connecting rail to connect with these (freight rail is all but completely absent), and rural road networks to connect with them. This will lower logistics costs, improving profit margins and thus investment. 3) Increased legislative protection of private land and property. People will not invest in their own land when herders can wander through and eat their crops. 4) Subsidisation, funded by tax increases rather than foreign debt, of production of the inputs to agriculture and related food processing. This includes herbicides, pesticides, agricultural equipment, food processing equipment, as well as the inputs to those including the steel, oil, oil processing, natural gas and natural gas processing and distribution. 5) Once the above is done: subsidisation of the Bank of Agriculture, to reduce cost of capital and allow both farmers and food processors to invest in all of the above products. 6) Curtailing of population growth should also be part of the picture. I'm highly skeptical of projections that say that Nigeria will go to 800 million but do believe based on the current population, rate of change of fertility and rate of change of the rate of change of fertility, normalised to other countries at the same point of the development curve, that it will reach 650 million. If it goes above 500 million then it would, according to my estimation based on the amount of arable land Nigeria has, never achieve food security. The above, if it starts now and leans heavily into it, is at least 30 years worth of work. As I say, it's making progress, but it has much more to do.
I have actually seen reported that the world produces twice the number of calories needed for the population. If you hadn't noticed, the biggest health problem in the developed world and in large parts of the developing world (such as China) is obesity. Yes, even in China where Type 2 diabetes levels are very high. I volunteered at a food bank in the suburbs of a major city for several years. I would say that a majority of the "clients" were overweight, with a good number being obese. These are the people who are "food insecure". No, the world will not have a problem producing enough food for peak population. We already do. The issue that Africa faces is that globalization has made it possible for populations to grow well beyond the carrying capacity of the land. This was made possible by the unrestricted free trade made possible by the US led world order. That is an anomaly in world history. It is coming to an end. A good example of the distortions caused by this is Egypt. They switched from growing wheat to cotton. Then, their population mushroomed. Even if they went back to growing only grains, they would not be able to feed their population. Once things really begin to break down, famine will become commonplace. China is another good example. If they start a war and they are cut off from food imports, you could see 500M people starve. They have so badly mismanaged their agriculture that they are on the verge of facing shortages now. Let's just say that it is all downhill from here. That is until they perfect soylent green.
Lol let the Africans in Africa keep supporting Russia and Putin, they the ones who will suffer the most from this war😂😂😂😂I have family in Africa and I tell them this all the time
U sound stupid The era of western propaganda is over Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe Ask Beggar macron His country can no longer afford anything Africa stated “ pay up “ We have the communities, tangible assets Btw Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺 A loyal friend From west Africa 🦅
@@criessmiles3620 say that to the Ukrainians you know the guy Yelsine used to called "Russia's little brother" before Putin stab them in the back. My advices to the African do let any white faces tell you what to do. There is no bigger liars than the Russian in this world they lie to their own people so don't expect any thruth from them!!🧠
didn't you hear him talk about how some of these countries import more than 70% of their grain from russia? Make sense for them to support him then. Most subsaharan africans countries actually import their food from the americas, europe and asia, it is mainly the north africans states like egypt that are/were dependent on russia/ukraine as wheat make up a greater part of their local consumption, in subsaharan africa rice is the staple food. Video is kind of a click bait, nigeria, subsahara's most populous country has a wheat consumption of about 6 million metric tons annually while algeria at 1/5 of their population has 2x the wheat consumption.
Prioritize food deliveries & aid to friendly countries, strengthening adversaries & dysfunctional hateful countries is counterproductive to larger long term goals.
We dont have food shortage in Africa, what comes from Ukraine to most countries in Sub Saharan Africa is wheat, and Wheat is not a staple food for most sub saharan african countries, do ure research most sub saharan african countries grow its own maize, sorghum, cassava these are the staple food, We dont have food shortage in Tanzania
Ignorance too can cause mental famine 😂. Africans don't need food from that region to survive. Africans consume tubers more than grains. Ukraine doesn't feed Africa
They will still believe Russian propaganda that NATO is blame for supporting Ukraine instead of the obvious consequences of the Russian Navy restricting food exports from Ukraine.
We still have enough food to feed the world population, only problem today is miss allocation. This will not be the case in the future when we won't have enough food to feed world population
Blame Europe. Instead of leaving strong institutions like the US did with Germany, Japan, and the Philippines, Europe left their colonies with a culture of patronage and ethnic rivalry.
@@badluck5647 Even if that's the case, then why do Europe's former colonies in Asia generally thrive? Ofcourse us Europeans have done awful things in our (former) colonies, however most of these countries are now independent for anywhere between 50 and 75 years. Maybe about time to also start calling out on their own responsibilities rather than continuing to blame Europe? For starters, us Europeans aren't asking Africans to have anywhere between 3 and 7 children (which is the reproduction number for all African countries) when they can barely feed themselves, let alone their children. Us Europeans aren't voting for the power hungry despots that generally are the 'presidents' of their respective African countries. And us Europeans sure as hell haven't asked for billions of euros of foreign aid money to disappear into the pockets of said power hungry despots and their band of thieves whilst letting their population rot away. So if that culture of patronage and ethnic rivalry doesn't work, they had ample time to change their cultures into something that does work for them. That's exactly what Europe's former colonies in Asia have been doing. Don't keep on dwelling over the past, but put the work in to make your country a better place tomorrow.
@FarsightAE I blame the colonizers who systematically dismantled all the institutions and who only granted independence to their exploited colonies when they had no other option. But sure. Blame the colonized for the consequences of colonization.🙄
Where in Africa is Ukraine war going to cause hunger? Our food imports in Africa are only 7%...... We don't even eat wheat, corn we farm and even export. So stop this nonsense of victimizating us
But then, China invaded Taiwan, and things only got worse, as now, semiconductors are in short supply, since most of the world's semiconductors are made in Taiwan, and those Taiwanese semiconductors factories are getting bombed by Chinese forces, and this supply shortage doesn't just affect Sub-Saharan Africa, but the whole world.
"Most" is an overstatement. TSMC produces more than competitors, but their capacity is just 15% of world total. Of course it will send huge shockwave if the world suddenly lose 15% of chip supply, but I think Samsung and Intel (number 2 & 3 biggest producers) can and will fill the gap quickly. After all, crisis is opportunity, especially for competitors.
@@boulderbash19700209 I'm mostly talking about the most advanced chips, which Taiwan produces most of it, the others only produce less advanced chips, so when China started to invade Taiwan and bombed Taiwanese semiconductor factories, humanity had essentially been technologically setback by years, which is not a lot, but it's still a technological setback nonetheless.
As much as to save Ukrainians from months and years of suffering and to teach Russia to stop invading countries NATO should have got involved in the Ukraine war to quickly destroy the terrorist Russian invaders to ensure that disruption to grain production and supply to poorer countries was very short-lived. I fear that with the war very possibly going into 2024 with grain and sunflower oil and fertilizer exports reduced the war may cause even more suffering and death in the Middle East and in Africa than it is in Ukraine. Though tragically, unless Ukraine carries out an amazingly successful counter offensive the war will likely go on until Russia goes broke which won't happen until the end of this year at the earliest. Also, last year Canada's Prime Minister said one day that given the war Canada would do what it could to maximize grain production in 2022. One farmer was not impressed by that comment and said "What is he talking about? We work to maximize grain production every year". In other words it can be hard for other grain producing countries to quickly increase production to make up for decreased exports from Ukraine and Russia.
Africa is a continent comprising of 54 nation-states! Not every nation state in Africa is susceptible to what is happening in Europe! Some countries have it worse some countries have no problem! Please educate yourself Sir! Plus the big issue isn't grain from Ukraine but fertilizer from Russia!
Yes because government trying to control population worked so well for places like China… oh wait it hasn’t. The bigger issue here is global warming causing many places across the globe to lose land that can be used for farming, and our farming practices not being efficient/destructive. Truthfully at the end of the day, some places are just better than others to produce food in the traditional sense and we need to completely rethink how we grow crops. Specifically we need to reduce the amount of fertilizer being used and the amount of water that gets wasted
You forget about EU in this video. In Poland farmers were striking because our market was flooded by cheap technical grain from Ukraine which was then mixed with consumable grain and dropped price too much for producers. The same worries are concerning different food articles from Ukraine(Ukrainian prices were lower because they don't have to keep EU food standards). This is logistic problem because Ukrainian food stays in Europe.
@@AsG_4_ Main issue in this case was quality, EU lifted tarrifs for technical grains(Ukraine don't have EU food regulation) of poor quality which later was mixed with polish grain. THis month Poland banned agriculturale products which was against EU pollicy. Topic is not so simple. @VisualPolitikEN could made whole episode as it also involve Czech, Hungary and other countries
No, this videos full of misinformation. Most Russia and Ukrainian grains aren’t going to Africa. Calories consumed in Africa are not grain based calories.
The opposite, Africa is such an abundant land and farmers know how to grow food, the issue is that EU agro subsidies are making african farmers life impossible to compete with european imported goods.
BS. Also Ukraine and Russia and South America are what feeds Africa. Also Europe is overpopulated and thus mildly food insecure. So no, Europe doesn't have to destroy its ability to feed itself for the benefit of Africans.
@@goncalomachado5247 Do more than dare, help correct problems leveraging *local* resources for the *local* market. But one thing have to be addressed by Africans themselves, the constants wars and in-fighting: war as you know destroys everything in spite. War only benefits weapons dealers. The inroads Russian Wagner group is making in African countries is a tell tale of this, the other is Islamist terror group supported by “clean” Middle Eastern countries.
4:30 That's incredibly narrow-minded and short-sighted. Who cares if there is enough food for everybody when there isn't enough of anything else? There is already a shortage of jobs, housing, doctors, teachers, etc. for the over 8 BILLION people there are now; food isn't the only resource to think about. 🙄 Moreover, resource shortages aren't the only problem that overpopulation causes, it causes literally _every_ problem in the world. 😒
Overpopulation is only a problem in socialist countries where government act as god and fail miserably. In capitalist countries, the problem is under population because having children is a risky investment.😎
Not really, there are mentions in Czech chronicles, that during reign of Charles the 4th, we grew oranges around here in the outside. more like Africa did not adapt to the change, because it never bothered creating actual institutions, capable of handling situation like this.
Dude . This shit makes food cost astronomical. They sell to the highest bidder. In Canada wr gave to import food from other countries cause the food grown here sells to the highest bidder and out stores are lect with shit and its still expensive. Wtf is wrong with this place
we've had remarkably good weather in the last couple of years, for food production it won't last... and with two of the top 5 wheat exporters in the world locked in battle , and their men sent to war or worse, and sanctions and the black sea security issue - a global famine is far more likely than not i'm afraid a lot of the world's agricultural inputs for industrial ag , come through the black sea - and even though sanctions do try to keep open these critical food and ag inputs for the world , the wheels are falling off the russian system and the ukranian system is thoroughly offline at this point
😂😂😂😂😂We are not your children. This war has exposed a lot about our world we may be slow learners as Africans but we are learning as young generation is taking over.
You said that Turkey is checking the Ukranian ships for carring weapons, but at the same time you said that Turkey gave weapons to Ukraine. I am confused! Is Turkey supposed not to allow weapons to reach Ukraine or not?
U wish The era of western propaganda is over Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe Ask Beggar macron His country can no longer afford anything Africa stated “ pay up “ We have the communities, tangible assets Btw Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺 A loyal friend From west Africa 🦅
It is of credit that you are concerned about poor countries and food sources. Btw, wheat future prices are down -39% from a year ago; and corn and soybeans about minus - 15 %. Bizarre.
Which African country they dépend 100%in Ukraine 🇺🇦 food 🍲.? Africa is continent is not country how can biggest continent with 54 countries depend Ukraine 🇺🇦 does make logic and sense
That’s because it’s not true , sure some countries may import certain items in large volumes from Ukraine and Russia but that doesn’t mean they are not producing or buying other stuffs from other countries. this is just western propaganda to make seem Ukraine is that important when it’s not so they can feel good about themselves in justifying their involvement there . A simple research debunk this whole video, even some of the examples he gave you will find some of those countries actually import most of their grain from France not Ukraine
13:08 Care to provide one example of Russia "always wanting something in return" when dealing with countries that don't actively attack it's economy? A PRIVATE military COMPANY not working for free, isn't an example.
U sound stupid The era of western propaganda is over Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe Ask Beggar macron His country can no longer afford anything Africa stated “ pay up “ We have the communities, tangible assets Btw Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺 A loyal friend From west Africa 🦅
Europe: "Because of Russia's actions, grain is not coming to Africa! She's in danger of HUNGER!" Russia: "Okay, we have opened ports. You can deliver grain to Africa" Europe: ... delivers grain to Europe. Russia: "WTF?" Europe: "What?" Russia: ... closes ports. Europe: "This is genocide! People are starving in Africa!" Russia: "we will supply grain to Africa for free" Europe: "Damn communists! Putin uses grain as a weapon!"
The era of western propaganda is over Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe Ask Beggar macron His country can no longer afford anything Africa stated “ pay up “ We have the communities, tangible assets Btw Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺 A loyal friend From west Africa 🦅
The bigger issue is fertilizer availability. Russia and Ukraine were major exporters of fertilizer and the Russian bombing campaign has destroyed the plants that manufacture fertilizer. So, there isn’t enough fertilizer available for the (non-African) countries that need it to feed their populations.
China banned fertilizer exports back in 2022, but they don’t have enough on hand for 2023 planting. They’re going to have to figure out how to transport lots of natural fertilizer to the fields from hundreds of miles away. Oh, and their hog population is being devastated by disease, so there isn’t enough natural fertilizer anyway.
Yes, fertiliser should have absolutely been covered in this video. There is also the issue that many governments have or are likely to put in place there own food export bans (India did this last year), and now some EU states are looking to restrict Ukrainian grains on their market to protect their own agriculture sectors.
Russia fertilizer is being banned in EU
We really should stop sending food to Africa and start helping them develop their agricultural sector.
Bill Gates isn't helping he is just investing for profits
100% correct always trying to find away for Africa to be dependent on Europe
I agree as well. I would ad that sooner or later there is still a risk that we have a problem with food suply to africa, because their population is growing rapidly. There wouldn't be a problem with the food suply as well as the prices if their population wouldn't grow that much. Which can lead again to new immigration waves...
Can't be done. that would require solving water and fertilizer problem for Northern Africa (which maybe, Czechs got prize of Expo for one such technology in Dubai a while back) and wildlife everywhere South of Sahel, most of which is protected due to being endangered (eg. extinction for most), if agriculture were to take hold to the extent, where it could compete with Europe, even without subsidies, this would have to change. And it would be extremely expensive to boot.
Ernesto Sirolli illustrates this very well. They brought seeds, found very fertile land, taught the locals how, even paid them, to grow crops... and then the hypos came...
We've tried. They call it "lecturing" and complaining that our aid and loans come with requirements.. like more democracy for more stable and investable societies.
Make no mistake, there will be a massive famine in future unless Africa becomes self sufficent. Its insane to have exploding population when lot of the food is imported.
Most of Africa does not eat wheat.
For example Nigeria the most populous country in Africa and their main staple crops are yams and cassava.
Not products produced in Russia or Ukraine but in Nigeria.
The importance of Russia/Ukraine to Africas food supply is massively overstated.
Not true. Nigeria grows durum wheat but imports common wheat. If they can better engineer durum for more uses then that would secure most of west africa
Even if I took this as true, that's Nigeria, look at nations like Egypt or Sudan and other east African nations! Not to mention the fact, that Nigeria is relatively next to another agricultural powerhouse, France!
@@looseycanon yep. Self sustainability is key. Africa must begin
You better look up Egypt , they would starve without food imports from Russia and Ukraine.
The definition of a overpopulated country is when they have more people than the country can produce food to feed them.
Imported food for Variety is not like importing food to Survive.
So Nigerians don't consume bread for breakfast
I don't know about other countries, but in Cameroon, we are self sufficient. We eat what we produce and export food to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, chad and central African Republic. We import industrial products not food products
South Africa kicked out the large white farm owners , now the farms sit and do nothing because nobody knows how to operate them .
So you don't consume bread ??
@@gaza1677 we consume bread but it's not imported. We produce flour from sorghum, sweet potatoes, wheat, cassava etc which are all locally grown. Like I said, I don't know for other countries, I'm talking here about Cameroon. Let Russia and Ukraine fight till eternity, we will never starve.
Making children ... that's Africa.
Every year hunger gets worse
when has the west ever cared who starved in Africa , India ... there is your history
Africa population is growing faster than food production and wars like in Sudan or Ethiopia made it worse
There will be no end to hunger in Africa
@saoham659
Sahel and Nigeria and DRC and Somalia + Sudan Ethiopia Madagascar
Also hunger outside Africa exists only in Haiti Venezuela and war zones like Yemen and Myanmar and Afghanistan and parts of Ukraine
Not comforting news but thanks for the effort to give it a much wider audience .
Around 11:10 - editing mistake - you repeated a line of speech
Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind.
I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.
Would Africa still support Russia if they cut off grain shipments from Odessa?
I don't know why any African would ever support Russia. They have been detrimental to the development of Africa by stoking conflict and flooding the continent with kalashnikovs..
@@poetryaddict1 Because most African issues can be traced back to Europeans colonialism. It easier to blame unpopular Europeans than Russia - the champion of autocrat leaders on the world stage.
Russian propaganda owns every hole in an average african brain - russians gonna blame others, africans gonna nod in agreement
@@badluck5647 colonial issues and food scarcity is 2 different things ... Look no further than Egypt ..went from sending rockets to Russia ..to now sending them to Ukraine ...when did this happen ..when Russia started up the bullshit with wheat shipments again ... Food don't lie ..you have it or you don't and the consequences are dire
The era of western propaganda is over
Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe
Ask Beggar macron
His country can no longer afford anything
Africa stated “ pay up “
We have the communities, tangible assets
Btw
Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺
A loyal friend
From west Africa
🦅
The main cost driver for bread was energy costs. It even put hundreds of bakeries out of business!
Blame usa for banning others for buying russian gas and oil
11:04
11:12
A glitch in the Matrix...
Peter Zeihan explains this a lot more in depth
North Africa were they are mostly Arabs, they are the ones who are dependent on wheat from Ukraine! For Sub-Sahara it is mostly Maize & Cassava so our problem is Fertilizer! For us Ukraine is not an issue at all! Y'all just love making it seem like we need to support Ukraine!
How about we start growing our own food in our own farms? I think that's the best solution for every African citizen
Hasn't it already done? The problem are as the video described: backward technologies, lack of capital, bad infrastructures, and above all, political instability.
I live in Africa and all the things you mentioned don't scare me but except for one, "Political Instability". I always pray and hope for the peace in the country I live in remains the same and stable. I always fear of something happening.🤦🏾♂️
Zimbabwe was the grain center of Africa. Until Mugabe destroyed the entire grain business in his country.
Reject humanity, return to monke
Africa we abandoned our own traditional food crops, now we pay a Heavy Price.
But the traditional crops had the technological characteristicis (like GM variants) to work on macroecnomic scale?
@@LuisRomeroLopez atleast it avoided dependency and extreme hunger. It might not have been good for the economy
@@David-gy6fv But it avoided it with less population that had less demands that they have in modern life. I mean, consider that the problem is that what was a good solution 50 or 100 years ago or more, may not be a fitting solution whitin the last 20 years.
@@LuisRomeroLopez some of this crops are well adapted to local climate and we had control of the seeds, now we depend on seed supply, fertilizers, chemicals .
@@David-gy6fv There is a reason, why local "adapted" crops are abandoned for others. Not enough yields from the crop, when compared to another and not enough value of the crop, to become specialty crop. End of story. Self sufficiency has a cost.
Africa is extremely fertile.
If they don't want to starve, they could try democracy - that will stop hunger
Famine doesn't have to happen.
In fact, we're at a unique point in history when every country including those that aren't grain producers can becme agriculturally self-sufficient.
Driven by new research in indoor farming and new developments in renewable energy technology particularly in the development of LED lights and solar electricity, indoor farming is already competitive with traditional outdoor farming on a small scale and farming at larger scale is being experimented all the time. The benefits of indoor farming are immense over outdoor farming, for one practically the entire cost of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A lot of the uncertainty and risk due to variable climatic and seasonal conditions are eliminated. Many crops can be grown year round, isolated from devasting bugs, disease, and extreme conditions like excessive heat or cold, and flood or drought. Water requirements can be minimal due to zero loss to evaporation.
Today, most of the knowledge how to farm indoors efficiently and economically is only in developed countries.
Undeveloped countries should be aware that these new options exist and might even make enough sense to obtain a loan from established financial institutons to develop these kinds of projects. No one should have to resort to predatory BRICS projects and loans to feed their own people using these new technologies.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Energy is still a major factor and if you want to do this renewable, you have trouble.
1) not all places are well suited for production of energy from renewable source. In Africa, there is problem with sand scratching solar panels, meaning you'd need some kind of engineering solution for that, or overbuild power generation or replace panels more frequently, than in other areas less exposed to sand. Abrasion is a problem for solar or anything involving moving parts, which make wind also problematic.
2) neither wind nor solar produce energy reliably, they are intermittent and don't cut against each other, meaning, you need some kind of energy storage, be it a huge water tower with a generator, which gets filled during the day and releases stored water over night (I have actually thought about water as a buffer for wind and solar a while back, or you need more batteries. Both solutions increase running costs of such production facility, hence why these are usually used for more of a cash crops like vegetables!
The way I see it, vertical farming and other indoor applications are evolution of greenhouse technology and, therefore, will be more likely used to produce similar commodities, as are currently produced in greenhouses. Problem is, none of these are used to produce flour and from it basics like bread, pasta or tortillas... or any flatbread in general, and which is most efficient to transport of agricultural products!
@@looseycanon As I tried to explain, technology now is more than sufficient to support sustained indoor farming because the operating costs for electricity generation powering indoor lights is more than made up by the complete or nearly complete elimination of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and conservation of water to the point very little water needs to be added from growing season to season. The economics are there and there are numerous studies and demos people can access that describe exactly what to do to get specific results. Some desert nations with enormous wealth like Saudi Arabia are already running early experiments. It won't be long before even countries with enormous land resources and favorable climates might still transition to indoor farming replacing traditional farming methods.
As for stuff like sand abrasion, that's probably not an issue.
I haven't studied what might be recommended but I knoww that silicon dioxide coating for vehicle windshields and painted surfaces is becoming quite cheap. Applying these kinds of coatings would easily fill in any scratches and provide a hard, resistant surface, like fighting sand with ceramics.
@@tonysu8860 Technology is not there. Sure, you can have LEDs, that emit same light as our sun, but that is now decade or more old technology normally used in greenhouses. Spoiler alert, never used for production of produce like corn or wheat, which are used for feed and more importantly flour, which in turn is used make the basics like pasta and bread. What is grown in greenhouses, and indoor farming is nothing else than advanced version of greenhouse farming, are vegetables like pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers and leafy vegetables. What is never grown there, given how little each unit of yields, are grains. Density of seeding helps in this regard, but it is not sufficient to cover any significant population. And then, there are the problems with energy, where in the desert, both solar and wind suffer from greater wear and tear and are intermittent, meaning you have to create an energy storage system, which further increases cost of the investment and by extension of produce grown. The yields from grains are simply too low to effectively utilize indoor farming, especially if final price is of concern, given their use.
And then there is the problem with specially designed, more expensive solar panels and more expensive maintenance on wind turbines, and shortened lifespan of both, costs of which, again, need to be covered by the cost of produce grown! Yeah, that is something that the Saudis can do, cause this is expensive like hell and Saudis are loaded like ships wit cash! But the problem of available food is not limited to the Gulf nations! Nations like Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Algeria can't afford this kind of food production, especially not at scale necessary.
No, it would be better, to find a resource, which can be mined and refined within their own borders and import food from abroad, which is precisely, what Zimbabwe did with Lithium, when they introduced ban on raw lithium exports (which has it's own problems reminiscent of pre WW1 economic model, but that's a different discussion).
If Africa cannot feed its population the solution is.
Increase its own food production or decrease is human production.
Sending food there is wrong solution in the long run.
Nether I'd optional.
Food production as mentioned is problematic.
Births are also high to ensure some survive.
@@Suksass
If the population drops to 1/4 of what is is now, food production will no longer be an issue.
If the population doubles nature has a method to control the infestation called disease and starvation.
@@universeisundernoobligatio3283 You realise this is 21st century and we no longer abide by nature rules? We've spend centuries developing new ways to ginore nature.
The other thing is that population drops are something most nations suffer if happens.
And you might have not noticed this but the worse country does, the more children are given biirth to ensure survival of some.
So again, it's not really optional.
So long story short, whether your talking pre or post colonial era, without European innovation and intervention, sub Saharan Africa is screwed. 😮
Yeah, another famine in Africa, but the population doubles itself every decade. When there was a famine in Ireland the population was halved. Much more effective way against famine is to teach Africans to use contraceptives
I think this is a great idea. Someone needs to teach them how to use contraceptives. I suggest you do that😂. Take the next flight to Africa and teach them how to use pills. I guess Western countries eat more propaganda than food.
Which is unfortunately controversial there because they often see it as some sort of genocide to limit family sizes by any means, even though they're spending a lot more of their limited wealth juggling resources between many kids and leaving little to invest on improving individual productivity and developing reliable market connections.
Its bound to happen at some point.
There’s one way to end all crisis that have derived from this war: Give Ukraine enough weapons to win the war decisively this year!
Might as well give nukes to Ukraine to leverage its negotiations of peace with Russia.
Maybe this is a message to Africa: GYOF (Grow Your Own Food)? They could do it, it's a huge continent. But they have been spending their time killing each other instead of providing food for their people. A lesson to learn.
Kind of like Europe in previous centuries.
Learn this Africa is not like Australia it is a group of countries in a continent
Different African countries are doing great and may switch to growing there own food. Kenya, Botswana and a lot of others have rich crop growing soil, and are moving to in house farmings.
The biggest importers are Sub-Saharan Africa countries. They import food because they live near a desert.
Your statement is like saying that Las Vegas should grow more food to be more independent.
Guys when people say Africa their talking about the region in general ..don't get so butt hirtt ...yeah we know it's not one country ...it's a region get over it
Could you please not speed up the video? This is so jarring. People who need speed surely know the speed controls already.
Maybe in some other parts of Africa but here in Nigeria, the answer is 100% NO.
Africa is not a country but a continent, so be specific my friend.
No not be specific ! What you want him to name all 54 nations ? Or how about all the different tribes in Africa ... Get bent every knows it's not a country ..only morons think other people don't know this. We say Africa because we're not gonna say all 54 nations ...do you say oromia tigray afar Somali Amhara and the other tribes when talking about Ethiopia? No you say Ethiopia bevause it's convenient. WE KNOW AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY
clickbait to influence the support of the war.
Guess what if a famine happens in Libya it's still happening in Africa now isn't it ? This list ranked the most food insecure nations
1 Afghanistan
2 Burkina Faso
3 Burundi
4 Cameroon
5 Central African Republic
6 Chad
7 Democratic Republic of the Congo
8 Djibouti
9 Eritrea
10 Ethiopia
11 Guinea
12 Iraq
13 Kenya
14 Lesotho
15 Liberia
16 Madagascar
17 Malawi
18 Mali
19 Mauritania
20 Mozambique
21 Myanmar
22 Nepal
23 Niger
24 North Korea
25 Republic of the Congo
26 Sierra Leone
27 Somalia
28 South Sudan
29 Sudan
30 Swaziland
31 Syria
32 Uganda
33 Yemen
34 Zimbabwe
26/34 are in Africa ...
See a common theme ? See why we say Africa ..do you want him to name everyone of these African nations in the title that only allows 100 characters ?
Nigeria has developed it's agricultural sector tremendously over the past few decades, but it still has tremendously more to do. Much of the development has been the result of subsidisation of imports of fertilizer, pesticide, agricultural equipment, etc. This is a situation fairly similar to Sri Lanka, in that it has substituted (partially, still WIP) importation of food for importation of the inputs to food production. Meanwhile, food processing remains critically underdeveloped, and logistics prices to move what food is created and/ or processed remains sky high and unreliable.
None of this is to undermine the progress that it has made, but it needs to do a few things to get to where it needs to be, which is still some way's off:
1) Improve the security situation, particularly in food producing areas and along distribution networks. Without this, organic investment in farming and food processing operations will be diminished due to heightened risk and lower profit margins.
2) Transport networks must be improved, this includes transport facilities along the length of the Niger and Benue rivers, as well as connecting rail to connect with these (freight rail is all but completely absent), and rural road networks to connect with them. This will lower logistics costs, improving profit margins and thus investment.
3) Increased legislative protection of private land and property. People will not invest in their own land when herders can wander through and eat their crops.
4) Subsidisation, funded by tax increases rather than foreign debt, of production of the inputs to agriculture and related food processing. This includes herbicides, pesticides, agricultural equipment, food processing equipment, as well as the inputs to those including the steel, oil, oil processing, natural gas and natural gas processing and distribution.
5) Once the above is done: subsidisation of the Bank of Agriculture, to reduce cost of capital and allow both farmers and food processors to invest in all of the above products.
6) Curtailing of population growth should also be part of the picture. I'm highly skeptical of projections that say that Nigeria will go to 800 million but do believe based on the current population, rate of change of fertility and rate of change of the rate of change of fertility, normalised to other countries at the same point of the development curve, that it will reach 650 million. If it goes above 500 million then it would, according to my estimation based on the amount of arable land Nigeria has, never achieve food security.
The above, if it starts now and leans heavily into it, is at least 30 years worth of work. As I say, it's making progress, but it has much more to do.
You've lost it Nigeria is busy building on productive land in the south soon you'll have no land to grow food
The answer is no.
This guys teeth are the most British I’ve ever seen!!
I have actually seen reported that the world produces twice the number of calories needed for the population. If you hadn't noticed, the biggest health problem in the developed world and in large parts of the developing world (such as China) is obesity. Yes, even in China where Type 2 diabetes levels are very high. I volunteered at a food bank in the suburbs of a major city for several years. I would say that a majority of the "clients" were overweight, with a good number being obese. These are the people who are "food insecure". No, the world will not have a problem producing enough food for peak population. We already do.
The issue that Africa faces is that globalization has made it possible for populations to grow well beyond the carrying capacity of the land. This was made possible by the unrestricted free trade made possible by the US led world order. That is an anomaly in world history. It is coming to an end. A good example of the distortions caused by this is Egypt. They switched from growing wheat to cotton. Then, their population mushroomed. Even if they went back to growing only grains, they would not be able to feed their population. Once things really begin to break down, famine will become commonplace. China is another good example. If they start a war and they are cut off from food imports, you could see 500M people starve. They have so badly mismanaged their agriculture that they are on the verge of facing shortages now. Let's just say that it is all downhill from here. That is until they perfect soylent green.
Brazil is the third exporter of the grains in the World.
Lol let the Africans in Africa keep supporting Russia and Putin, they the ones who will suffer the most from this war😂😂😂😂I have family in Africa and I tell them this all the time
Most countries in africa are borderline authoritarian so it’s not surprising they’re falling for Russian propaganda
U sound stupid
The era of western propaganda is over
Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe
Ask Beggar macron
His country can no longer afford anything
Africa stated “ pay up “
We have the communities, tangible assets
Btw
Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺
A loyal friend
From west Africa
🦅
But but but it's evil America's fault
@@criessmiles3620 say that to the Ukrainians you know the guy Yelsine used to called "Russia's little brother" before Putin stab them in the back.
My advices to the African do let any white faces tell you what to do.
There is no bigger liars than the Russian in this world they lie to their own people so don't expect any thruth from them!!🧠
didn't you hear him talk about how some of these countries import more than 70% of their grain from russia? Make sense for them to support him then.
Most subsaharan africans countries actually import their food from the americas, europe and asia, it is mainly the north africans states like egypt that are/were dependent on russia/ukraine as wheat make up a greater part of their local consumption, in subsaharan africa rice is the staple food.
Video is kind of a click bait, nigeria, subsahara's most populous country has a wheat consumption of about 6 million metric tons annually while algeria at 1/5 of their population has 2x the wheat consumption.
Is this a re-upload? Feels like this became common knowledge almost a year ago
Prioritize food deliveries & aid to friendly countries, strengthening adversaries & dysfunctional hateful countries is counterproductive to larger long term goals.
Actually,Russia can export wheat,corn and barley but the exports are much more cheaper than in 2020..
Let's start with a question- does Simon know you nicked his wardobe?
no because they trade with china and russia
A simple research debunk this whole video for the most part ,this is laughable.
We dont have food shortage in Africa, what comes from Ukraine to most countries in Sub Saharan Africa is wheat, and Wheat is not a staple food for most sub saharan african countries, do ure research most sub saharan african countries grow its own maize, sorghum, cassava these are the staple food, We dont have food shortage in Tanzania
Love you guys lots
Nonsense. SSA is not huge on grains like wheat. North Africa consumes more wheat than the Whole SSA.
To pretend that Africa depends on Ukraine is very simplistic
So much for African being on Russia's side
Somehow the Russian bots will blame the west, whatever the West is
Africa is a continent not a country
Ignorance too can cause mental famine 😂. Africans don't need food from that region to survive. Africans consume tubers more than grains. Ukraine doesn't feed Africa
Idiots trying to learn Africa is a huge ass continent and not 1 country
They will still believe Russian propaganda that NATO is blame for supporting Ukraine instead of the obvious consequences of the Russian Navy restricting food exports from Ukraine.
Subharan Africa will be fine. It’s the Middle East that’s screwed.
We still have enough food to feed the world population, only problem today is miss allocation. This will not be the case in the future when we won't have enough food to feed world population
Africa is huge. A great amount of area to farm ?
It has 63% of the world's farmable land...
@@danielgermain5572yet it has worst food imports index
Africas problem is their corrupt power hungry leaders and lack of education. Such a sad story.
Blame Europe. Instead of leaving strong institutions like the US did with Germany, Japan, and the Philippines, Europe left their colonies with a culture of patronage and ethnic rivalry.
@@badluck5647 low iq is the issue in Africa.
@@badluck5647 Even if that's the case, then why do Europe's former colonies in Asia generally thrive?
Ofcourse us Europeans have done awful things in our (former) colonies, however most of these countries are now independent for anywhere between 50 and 75 years. Maybe about time to also start calling out on their own responsibilities rather than continuing to blame Europe?
For starters, us Europeans aren't asking Africans to have anywhere between 3 and 7 children (which is the reproduction number for all African countries) when they can barely feed themselves, let alone their children.
Us Europeans aren't voting for the power hungry despots that generally are the 'presidents' of their respective African countries.
And us Europeans sure as hell haven't asked for billions of euros of foreign aid money to disappear into the pockets of said power hungry despots and their band of thieves whilst letting their population rot away.
So if that culture of patronage and ethnic rivalry doesn't work, they had ample time to change their cultures into something that does work for them.
That's exactly what Europe's former colonies in Asia have been doing. Don't keep on dwelling over the past, but put the work in to make your country a better place tomorrow.
@@badluck5647 Blame the revolutionary/independence movements that demanded instant independence instead of a gradual shift.
@FarsightAE I blame the colonizers who systematically dismantled all the institutions and who only granted independence to their exploited colonies when they had no other option.
But sure. Blame the colonized for the consequences of colonization.🙄
Step 1: Have enough money that you can outbid someone poorer than you.
Repeat
Where in Africa is Ukraine war going to cause hunger? Our food imports in Africa are only 7%...... We don't even eat wheat, corn we farm and even export. So stop this nonsense of victimizating us
But then, China invaded Taiwan, and things only got worse, as now, semiconductors are in short supply, since most of the world's semiconductors are made in Taiwan, and those Taiwanese semiconductors factories are getting bombed by Chinese forces, and this supply shortage doesn't just affect Sub-Saharan Africa, but the whole world.
"Most" is an overstatement. TSMC produces more than competitors, but their capacity is just 15% of world total. Of course it will send huge shockwave if the world suddenly lose 15% of chip supply, but I think Samsung and Intel (number 2 & 3 biggest producers) can and will fill the gap quickly. After all, crisis is opportunity, especially for competitors.
@@boulderbash19700209 I'm mostly talking about the most advanced chips, which Taiwan produces most of it, the others only produce less advanced chips, so when China started to invade Taiwan and bombed Taiwanese semiconductor factories, humanity had essentially been technologically setback by years, which is not a lot, but it's still a technological setback nonetheless.
As much as to save Ukrainians from months and years of suffering and to teach Russia to stop invading countries
NATO should have got involved in the Ukraine war to quickly destroy the terrorist Russian invaders
to ensure that disruption to grain production and supply to poorer countries was very short-lived.
I fear that with the war very possibly going into 2024 with grain and sunflower oil and fertilizer exports reduced
the war may cause even more suffering and death in the Middle East and in Africa than it is in Ukraine.
Though tragically, unless Ukraine carries out an amazingly successful counter offensive
the war will likely go on until Russia goes broke which won't happen until
the end of this year at the earliest.
Also, last year Canada's Prime Minister said one day that given the war Canada would
do what it could to maximize grain production in 2022.
One farmer was not impressed by that comment and said
"What is he talking about? We work to maximize grain production every year".
In other words it can be hard for other grain producing countries to
quickly increase production to make up for decreased exports
from Ukraine and Russia.
Unless the channel stops using ChatGPT to generate their video topics, I am contemplating unsubscribing from it.
Africa is a continent comprising of 54 nation-states! Not every nation state in Africa is susceptible to what is happening in Europe! Some countries have it worse some countries have no problem! Please educate yourself Sir!
Plus the big issue isn't grain from Ukraine but fertilizer from Russia!
Never that shit
How to avoid famine? Well, i have The Modest Propousal
We’re not the “forgotten continent “. Stop making slight derogatory statements about Africa mon ami.
All countries should Control population and secure food supply otherwise such problems will continue to happen 😢
Yes because government trying to control population worked so well for places like China… oh wait it hasn’t.
The bigger issue here is global warming causing many places across the globe to lose land that can be used for farming, and our farming practices not being efficient/destructive.
Truthfully at the end of the day, some places are just better than others to produce food in the traditional sense and we need to completely rethink how we grow crops. Specifically we need to reduce the amount of fertilizer being used and the amount of water that gets wasted
No
Don't drag Africa into this. Africa is capable of producing their own food. I'm a Nigerian and we eat what we produce. Leave us out of your nonsense.
You forget about EU in this video. In Poland farmers were striking because our market was flooded by cheap technical grain from Ukraine which was then mixed with consumable grain and dropped price too much for producers. The same worries are concerning different food articles from Ukraine(Ukrainian prices were lower because they don't have to keep EU food standards). This is logistic problem because Ukrainian food stays in Europe.
Eh the French mad they getting Ukraine graine for their crescants 😂
Isn't grain very diverse in types and quality ? I'm really not well versed in it ..but I do know certain nations prefer their home grain 🌾
@@AsG_4_ Main issue in this case was quality, EU lifted tarrifs for technical grains(Ukraine don't have EU food regulation) of poor quality which later was mixed with polish grain. THis month Poland banned agriculturale products which was against EU pollicy. Topic is not so simple. @VisualPolitikEN could made whole episode as it also involve Czech, Hungary and other countries
What is technical grain? Grain made of nuts and bolts?🤔
You shouldn’t be so bias against Russia. The US and NATO have there part to play in this war. Solution…stop funding Ukraine!!
No, this videos full of misinformation. Most Russia and Ukrainian grains aren’t going to Africa. Calories consumed in Africa are not grain based calories.
11:05 why did you say it twice??
The opposite, Africa is such an abundant land and farmers know how to grow food, the issue is that EU agro subsidies are making african farmers life impossible to compete with european imported goods.
South Africa kicked out the large white farm owners , now the farms sit and do nothing because nobody knows how to operate them .
Ukraine and Russia are not in EU, the main exporters to Africa.
BS. Also Ukraine and Russia and South America are what feeds Africa. Also Europe is overpopulated and thus mildly food insecure. So no, Europe doesn't have to destroy its ability to feed itself for the benefit of Africans.
@@lv3609 dont u dare not blame the "West" for current African problems.
@@goncalomachado5247
Do more than dare, help correct problems leveraging *local* resources for the *local* market.
But one thing have to be addressed by Africans themselves, the constants wars and in-fighting: war as you know destroys everything in spite. War only benefits weapons dealers.
The inroads Russian Wagner group is making in African countries is a tell tale of this, the other is Islamist terror group supported by “clean” Middle Eastern countries.
4:30 That's incredibly narrow-minded and short-sighted. Who cares if there is enough food for everybody when there isn't enough of anything else? There is already a shortage of jobs, housing, doctors, teachers, etc. for the over 8 BILLION people there are now; food isn't the only resource to think about. 🙄 Moreover, resource shortages aren't the only problem that overpopulation causes, it causes literally _every_ problem in the world. 😒
Overpopulation is only a problem in socialist countries where government act as god and fail miserably. In capitalist countries, the problem is under population because having children is a risky investment.😎
08:19 - 😮 Seriously?
Jeez, Somalia just the start, seems Africa is already suffering and climate change is intensifying the problem!
Not really, there are mentions in Czech chronicles, that during reign of Charles the 4th, we grew oranges around here in the outside. more like Africa did not adapt to the change, because it never bothered creating actual institutions, capable of handling situation like this.
I’m Africa Can figure it out themselves
Then do it
So the sanctions were useless... got it.
North Africa and the muddle east* literally the Arab spring was because of a Ukrainian Russian famine
Dude . This shit makes food cost astronomical. They sell to the highest bidder. In Canada wr gave to import food from other countries cause the food grown here sells to the highest bidder and out stores are lect with shit and its still expensive. Wtf is wrong with this place
we've had remarkably good weather in the last couple of years, for food production
it won't last... and with two of the top 5 wheat exporters in the world locked in battle , and their men sent to war or worse, and sanctions and the black sea security issue - a global famine is far more likely than not i'm afraid
a lot of the world's agricultural inputs for industrial ag , come through the black sea - and even though sanctions do try to keep open these critical food and ag inputs for the world , the wheels are falling off the russian system and the ukranian system is thoroughly offline at this point
The ruskie bots will floods the comments
Yeah, one of the unentended consequences of ChatGPT.
@Working Prole inc. "If the shoe fits, wear it"
@@707Berto how does gpt4 spam RUclips comments ?
Why is this guy's face always shiny and why do you guys always speed him up talking in his videos
Wẹ are not in famine in Africa as a whole...
Where you tell that africa have famine ? Africa exporting food to. Euro and america
Crazy to even think this. Africa is the farm capital of the world.
Don’t try to make Europes problem as the worlds problem.
Bro needs to brush his teeth😭😭😭
yea and the US have the biggest arable land in the world, bigger than all of africa.
😂😂😂😂😂We are not your children. This war has exposed a lot about our world we may be slow learners as Africans but we are learning as young generation is taking over.
You said that Turkey is checking the Ukranian ships for carring weapons, but at the same time you said that Turkey gave weapons to Ukraine. I am confused! Is Turkey supposed not to allow weapons to reach Ukraine or not?
Weapons are just not allowed on grain ships, because otherwise Russia would want to sink them.
Not just Turkey but also Russian officers check them.
Such a thing would be hygienic
U wish
The era of western propaganda is over
Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe
Ask Beggar macron
His country can no longer afford anything
Africa stated “ pay up “
We have the communities, tangible assets
Btw
Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺
A loyal friend
From west Africa
🦅
It is of credit that you are concerned about poor countries and food sources. Btw, wheat future prices are down -39% from a year ago; and corn and soybeans about minus - 15 %. Bizarre.
Which African country they dépend 100%in Ukraine 🇺🇦 food 🍲.? Africa is continent is not country how can biggest continent with 54 countries depend Ukraine 🇺🇦 does make logic and sense
That’s because it’s not true , sure some countries may import certain items in large volumes from Ukraine and Russia but that doesn’t mean they are not producing or buying other stuffs from other countries. this is just western propaganda to make seem Ukraine is that important when it’s not so they can feel good about themselves in justifying their involvement there . A simple research debunk this whole video, even some of the examples he gave you will find some of those countries actually import most of their grain from France not Ukraine
Africa is starving since the inception. Nothing new
At this moment in time Africa seems like a Cake just divided by World Powers
We shall see
I allways turn to my friend and say 5 percent. We’re lucky to be born in the United States Tbh
I ❤ Africa
U should talk to the USA my bald frnd.
13:08 Care to provide one example of Russia "always wanting something in return" when dealing with countries that don't actively attack it's economy? A PRIVATE military COMPANY not working for free, isn't an example.
Liar, Ukraine was known just the other day😅
How to avoid famine- stop being greedy- how to avoid greed-stop being human
Yeah humans are pretty garbage but I think asia will explode soon as well because of the war
Africa have been having famines forever blaming it on Ukraine maybe is not responsible... That would be west fault and China... 😂
yes and yes
U sound stupid
The era of western propaganda is over
Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe
Ask Beggar macron
His country can no longer afford anything
Africa stated “ pay up “
We have the communities, tangible assets
Btw
Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺
A loyal friend
From west Africa
🦅
13:25 Burkina Faso, vive la Russie I bet they're saying.
Europe: "Because of Russia's actions, grain is not coming to Africa!
She's in danger of HUNGER!"
Russia: "Okay, we have opened ports. You can deliver grain to Africa"
Europe: ... delivers grain to Europe.
Russia: "WTF?"
Europe: "What?"
Russia: ... closes ports.
Europe: "This is genocide! People are starving in Africa!"
Russia: "we will supply grain to Africa for free"
Europe: "Damn communists! Putin uses grain as a weapon!"
What you wrote is bs
@@Userdiediedie I completely agree.
But Europe has always been a hypocritical piece of brown substance.
Amazing how Europe has a North, South, East and Western regions. But Africa "Sub-Sahara"
Ukrainian grains and food must go to Africa not to western Europe. Africa needs it more than western Europe.
The EU doesn't want it as it hurts the profits of European farmers.
Special Interests groups at work.
If these creatures still cant understand farming after all this time they deserve their fate. We all simply no longer care.
The era of western propaganda is over
Africa does not need Ukraine🇺🇦 and the rest of broke Europe
Ask Beggar macron
His country can no longer afford anything
Africa stated “ pay up “
We have the communities, tangible assets
Btw
Africa stands with Russia 🇷🇺
A loyal friend
From west Africa
🦅
Why? Africa doesnt want western interference so Africa can grow its own food.
@@badluck5647 In Africa it will be pilfered or resold through politicians at exorbitant prices