Global food prices post biggest jump in decade
https://amp.ft.com/content/8b5f4b4d-cbf8-4269-af2c-c94063197bbb

Global food prices have surged by the biggest margin in a decade, as one closely watched index jumped 40 per cent in May, heightening fears that the inflation initially stoked by pandemic disruption was accelerating.

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The world’s consumer price inflation for food has already jumped 6.3 per cent in 2020, up from 4.6 per cent in 2019, according to the FAO as the pandemic played havoc with global supply chains, affecting the production and distribution of food. South America, with 21 per cent food price inflation, Africa and South Asia with 12 per cent and Oceania with 8 per cent were among the most affected regions.

The latest jump in food commodity prices reflected China’s soaring appetite for grain and soyabeans is adding to upward pressure on prices, along with a severe drought in Brazil and growing demand for vegetable oil for biodiesel, said analysts.

TUHO: myslim ze hlubsi diskuze by byla zajmava, ale sem uz to nepatri :)

TADEAS:

Opinion | A 50-Year Farm Bill - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05berry.html

U.S.-Sponsored Big Agriculture Is Leading to Ecological Collapse
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/17/big-industrialized-agriculture-climate-change-earth-systems-ecological-collapse-policy/

Industrial agriculture simplifies ecosystems, rendering us more vulnerable to threats. Transformative policies will be required to pull us back from the edge. As a start, the United States could set an example for the Global North with a 50-year farm bill.

The bill would promote ecosystem diversification and increased resilience by reducing acreage of annual grain crops from 70 percent to 10 percent or less of all cropland while scaling up perennial crops to 80 percent of farmland. The remaining 10 percent would be allocated to other crops, including a diverse array of locally produced vegetables and fruits. Soil and water-conserving perennial varieties of rice, wheat, legumes, and other food-grain crops—which are now being developed—could serve as components of diverse, perennial, multispecies communities of food crops that replicate how nature functions. The bill would promote a transition to smaller, more diverse farm operations as agricultural diversification will work most effectively not on vast, uniform acreages but as mosaics made up of many modest-sized farms.

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As Candide stresses, it is vital to move away from abstract, monocultural arguments proposing business-as-usual as the best practice for all toward more practical work in more locally attuned, diversified agricultures that respect limits—both ecological and human. It is time to scale down agriculture and enhance our resilience to coming disruptions. The transitions will not be easy. We do not yet live in the best of all worlds, but things can be otherwise than as they are. We will need new agricultures and new policies to support them abroad and at home. Let us cultivate our gardens.

TUHO: The world’s total, direct energy sector subsidies – including those to
fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear power – are estimated to have been at least USD 634 billion in 2017. These were dominated by subsidies to fossil fuels, which account for around 70% (USD 447 billion) of the total. Subsidies to renewable power generation technologies account for around
20 % of total energy sector subsidies (USD 128 billion), biofuels for about 6 % (USD 38 billion) and nuclear for at least 3 % (USD 21 billion).

TUHO: Yes. It is the proven financial consequences of our research that was crucial. There was just such ignorance and cynicism among investors of coal, oil and gas companies. Regulators were not on top of their game and investors weren't understanding the risks. So we thought, let's change mindsets. Let's get regulators understanding the systemic risks of climate change. And let's get the shareholders of these companies thinking about what they could be doing better.

Ono my to optimum ve vysledku nasledujeme, ale ta cesta jeho neustala konvergence a divergence - viz stridani politickejch stran (nebo bankeru x aktivistu). Pri odzoomovani ale lidstvo koreluje s nejakou optimalizacni krivkou, v nekterych castech sveta rychleji, v nekterych pomaleji.

Tenhle stret nazoru, expertiz, specializace atd. je ale pro dlouhodobe dosahovani toho optima zadouci.

TUHO: rozumim kam miris. problem je, ze takovejch dokumentu sou tisice. Prob by meli vsichni cist zrovna tenhle a ne jinej? Tady si asi muzeme poplacat po zadech, ze argument zname, ale ze nekdo neco nevi, ho nedela negramotnym. Predpokladam, ze taky nevis vsecko

Co se tyka wanabe kralovny, to neni zadna poza. Nas zivot je uzce spojenej s tim, jak dokazeme sami sebe nasytit /maaslowova hierarchie potreb/, a proto ten opernej bod je v ekonomii. Ten problem, na kterej narazis je imho jinde - ze nektery veci se velmi spatne vycislujou, jelikoz sou bud komplexni/multifaktorialni a jejich vliv tezko modelovatelnej, nebo moc fuzzy. Proto se jako prvni zahrnou vzdycky ty nejsnaze vycislitelny faktory. Proto mame levici a pravici a pak ruzny nazorovy podskupiny, eko frakce zelenejch... nikdo neumi oojmout veskerou komplexitu naseho sveta.

Bejt vsecko snadno vycislitelny a modelovatelny, nemusime se ridit nazory a dojmy, ale muzeme velmi snadno nasledovat optimum.

SHEFIK: No, tak pokud jses na strategicky pozici, ktera ovlivnuje fungovani celyho hospodarstvi, tak bys mel mit aspon elementarni zaklady stezejnich disciplin. Nejde o to, a bejt klimatolog, ale ty vole bejt aspon schopnej precist si "IPCC report for policymakers", coz je par desitek stran napsany tak, ze je pochopi kazdej.
Ale ja myslim, ze tohle je systematickej bias, kterej plyne z ekonomickejch teorii a hlavne celyho toho kretenskyho etosu wannabe kralovny spolecenskejch ved. Kdyz sledujes vyjadreni ekonomu, jsou konzistentne zcela naprosto mimo misu, s totalni ignoranci neekonomickycho vedeni. Jako trochu se to pomalu meni, ale jinak je to hruza a dle myho "trained incompetence" jak to hezky popsala v jednom dokumentu Lynn Margulis.

TUHO: neni to spis o case, ktery tematu venujes, nebo ses schopnej venovat? cas je limitovanej. odsuzovanej nekoho za to, ze nema prehled ve vsem mi prijde dost omezeny. je to jak rikat detem, ze sou hloupy, protoze jim neni jasny to co tobe. raketovej inzenyr asi nebude mit nikdy cas zkoumat, jaky procesy fungujou na arktide a entomolg bude tezko expertem na ekonomicky rizeni statu.

TUHO: Mno, to je jeden z duvodu, proc si uz dlouho myslim, ze lidstvo vyhynout musi: protoze vetsina elit jsou psychopati co toho nahledu nejsou schopni, tak trochu pro spolecnost menecenni jedinci.

TUHO: SHEFIK: Jinak je husty, jakou uroven negramotnosti dosahuji elity, predevsim potom ekonomicke a bankerske. Z toho vyjadreni CNB je zrejmy, ze se neorientuje v absolutnich zakladech problematiky...