Economy

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,654 posts) Wed Feb 16, 2022, 06:45 AM Feb 2022

Decade-High Food Prices Drive Poverty and Unrest in Africa

Africans face a wave of inflation causing food insecurity, driving some to emigrate to escape the spiralling cost of living. “Food and rent are basically unaffordable.”

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Decade-High Food Prices Drive Poverty and Unrest in AfricaParts of Africa are contending with a wave of inflation that is, by some measures, even worse than the supply shocks cascading around the rest of the

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Decade-High Food Prices Drive Poverty and Unrest in Africa (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2022 OP

That's for sure. Some official prices are up Tetrachloride Feb 2022 #1

I did notice yesterday True Blue American Feb 2022 #2

This is the part no one wants to accept The Jungle 1 Feb 2022 #3

Tetrachloride

(8,442 posts)

1. That's for sure. Some official prices are up

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Wed Feb 16, 2022, 07:09 AM

Feb 2022

True Blue American

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2. I did notice yesterday

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Wed Feb 16, 2022, 07:18 AM

Feb 2022

My favorite bread drpped 20 cents. Not Omni sale, the regular price just dropped.

Kroger’s is posting locked in prices and the regular sales have returned to normal.

Gas is high just co-ordinate my Kroger points.

The Jungle 1

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3. This is the part no one wants to accept

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Wed Feb 16, 2022, 07:55 AM

Feb 2022

Climate change will cause crops to fail people will starve. They will also attempt to emigrate. Which will cause more unrest in the countries they attempt to emigrate to.
Hungry people will start to fight and take food. This is the downward spiral of starvation.
Here in America we spend less on food than in any other country in the world. Powerful people know that cheap food keeps the masses quiet. Our food industry is 100% socialism. It is completely government controlled. Which is how the price is kept so low. We will be a target when things in central America get worse.

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