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Storm Fronts

Storm fronts on the horizon...

  • Hunger – People not statistics
  • Apathy – The greatest single threat to seeing local and global based food security become a reality.
  • Population Growth – Estimated 9.1 billion people to feed by 2050
  • Urbanisation – Potentially the greatest resource we have for food security.
  • Global Financial Systems – If one country catches the financial flue we all catch it.
  • Food Gambling (Futures Markets) – Distorting the real food market.
  • Farming Subsidies – Distorting food production.
  • Sovereign Governments Food Regulations – Promoting industrial scale agriculture.
  • Local Government Food Regulations – Discouraging local food production.
  • Global Food Regulations –  Farming big brother.
  • Factory Farming – Cruel and unhealthy animal production.
  • Genetic Modification of Crops – Untested benefits with the certainty of ecological disaster.
  • Green revolution –  Positives and negatives
  • Hybrid Seeds –  High levels of fertilizer and pesticides usage.
  • Globalisation – Forced inter-dependence of nations.
  • Brain Drain – Dramatic decrease in farming population.
  • Ageing Farmer Population – Who’s going to grow our food for us?
  • Patents – Forcing farmers to stop saving their precious seeds.
  • Peak Oil – Agriculture globally is the largest user of oil.
  • Biodiversity Loss – The long term health of agriculture depends on healthy ecosystems.
  • Forestry – Long term contracts tying up valuable agricultural land.
  • Corruption – Personal, corporate, government, financial corruption leading to breakdown of societies.
  • Consumer Trends – Forcing traditional crops not to be grown.
  • Climate Change – Could be our second most difficult challenge?
  • Food Transportation – Increasing food miles.
  • Computerisation – Food production becoming dependant.
  • Materialism – Comfortably numb
  • Food Wastage – A growing developed world problem.
  • Environmental Damage – Difficult to repair.
  • Farm Dept – Like fighting with your hands tied behind your back.
  • Supermarket Monopolies – Corporate profits draining local communities.
  • Small Farms Disappearing – There goes local farming knowledge.
  • Canning Uniformity – Please only grow what we want.
  • Mechanisation – Sorry, no food due to mechanical breakdown.
  • Robotisation – The jobs of tomorrow have not been invented.
  • Unemployment/Underemployment – What an incredible resource for food security.
  • Free Trade Agreements – Who gets to pay?
  • Water shortages – Can’t grow food without water.
  • Land Degradation – That thin layer of topsoil vital.
  • Biofuels – Running cars at the expense of food production.
  • Retirement – A sleeping giant of food security.
  • Centralised Seed Banks – How do we get the seed off them?
  • War and Conflict – A terrible driver of famine.
  • Earthquakes and Tsunamis – Instant food security upheaval.
  • Meat Production Increase – Grains fed to animals not people.
  • Ignorance – 50 year old seed collection goes up in smoke.
  • Bee Disappearance – Without pollination there goes most of our food.
  • Health Issues – We are getting unhealthier.
  • Industrial Sabotage – There goes this year’s tomatoes.
  • Human Error – Sorry, I thought that was fertilizer not herbicide.
  • Land availability – Plenty of land but no food.
  • Water Availability –  That water belongs to us not you.
  • Social Disconnect – Sorry, do I know you?
  • Food Safety – Alarming increases in food contamination.
  • Food Allergies – There on the increase.
  • Cash Crops vs Food Crops – Wealthy vs poor.
  • Organic Produce – Food for the wealthy or the next big thing.
  • Industrial Agriculture – How long can the world sustain it?
  • Traditional Farming – Old hat or the way to go?
  • Animal Welfare – Does it matter how we treat animals?
  • Falling Tax Receipts – That’s ok just double the rate of the GST.
  • Corporate Tax Evasion – Its perfectly legal, just ask their lawyers.
  • Welfare Reliance – The budgets going through the roof.
  • Processed Foods – Convenient time savers or lethal poison?
  • Physical Health – The first generation to live less time than the last.
  • Coal Seam Fracking – A farmer’s best dream or worst nightmare.
  • Mental Health – Suicide rates in farming communities is soaring.
  • Loss of Orchards – Where has the fresh fruit gone?
  • Pandemic Risk – Risky reality in a global world.
  • Injustice – The rich get richer and the poor get the picture.
  • Demise of Seed Farmers – An offer too good to turn down.
  • In Season and on Time – Why does my food not taste right?
  • Price Increases – Wow, that’s expensive.
  • Kids Love Gardening – Who dropped the baton?
  • Sense of Achievement – Important or highly over rated.
  • Exercise and Well Being – Who needs all that vitamin D anyway?
  • Gift of Giving – Maybe we can all do without it.
  • Learning – Can we really learn anything from a garden?
  • Restoring – Im too busy for gardening.
  • The Joy of Gardening – Are you kidding?
  • Dwindling Grain Reserves – Just a few days of disaster.
  • Permaculture – Fact or fiction?
  • Biodynamic Gardening – Great food production or a time waster.
  • Community Gardens – Huge potential in food security.
  • School Food Gardens – The sleeping giant of food security.
  • Consolidation of Food supply Chains – Putting all our eggs in the one basket.
  • Foreign Ownership of Land – I can grow what I like thankyou very much.
  • Corporatisation of Food – You will eat what I tell you to.
  • Farming Subsidies – Distorting food markets.
  • Cultural Eliteism – This farming caper is for for the lower class not me.
  • Technological Advancement – Growing our own food is primitive isn’t it?
  • Farming Big Brother – We will pay you what we think is the right price.
  • Eating Habits – Food security by eating better.
  • Laziness – Gee this is hard work.
  • Contractual Farming – That’s checkmate.
  • Energy – Are we dependant or independent?
  • Immigration – Added burden or helping hand.
  • False religions/Ideologies – The world’s going mad, and hungry too.
  • Phariseeism – Do as I say but definitely don’t do as I do.
  • True Religion – That’s way too simple isn’t it?
  • Currency manipulation – Dollars, bitcoins or bust.
  • Sectarianism – Losing sight of the important issues.