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\nTED: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away | Sara Menker\n

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\nSara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: \"We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if...\nSara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: \"We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food,\" she says. \"People could starve and governments may fall.\" Menker's models predict that this scenario could happen in a decade -- that the world could be short 214 trillion calories per year by 2027. She offers a vision of this impossible world as well as some steps we can take today to avoid it.\n
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africa, food, economics, society, data, farming, south america, north america, america, population, countries, markets, demand, years, calories, india, time
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agriculture, global issues, investment, future, big macs, green revolution, commercial farms, surplus regions, slight flip, african continent, tipping point, change, growth, point, grow, coming, means, shows, blue, sufficient
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