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Before Borlaug, the world faced the threat of a Malthusian nightmare: growing populations in the developing world and insufficient food
supplies.
Russia started off its year as G-8 president with a crisis over gas
supplies
to Ukraine, and even threatened Europe with rerouting its gas exports to Asia.
Last month’s agreement, brokered by the European Union, to resume
supplies
of Russian gas to Ukraine must now be followed by genuine reform of the sector, eventually involving an international operator of the network.
Several SCO members are already assisting NATO countries to deliver
supplies
into Afghanistan, while Russia is allowing the United States to ferry military items across its border into Central Asia and onward to Afghanistan.
These ideas should receive more attention in the future, as our
supplies
of non-renewable resources dwindle.
We should be exploring every option, such as using drones to airdrop food and medical supplies, and developing mobile apps to monitor needs and track
supplies
on the ground, and to keep aid workers safer.
Europe and the Global Food CrisisPARIS – The world has been shaken by unprecedented spikes in food prices, by hunger riots, and by social tensions that demonstrate that food
supplies
have returned as a source of insecurity – to which global warming and declining natural resources are adding unprecedented urgency.
This means that agriculture should become an international priority, with the poorest countries helped to safeguard the security and independence of their food
supplies.
A single energy market is essential not only to ensure secure and reliable supplies, but also to achieve sustainable growth compatible with Europe’s commitments on climate change.
Even today, the weight of the world economy is already crushing nature, rapidly depleting the
supplies
of fossil-fuel energy resources that nature created over millions of years, while the resulting climate change has led to massive instabilities in terms of rainfall, temperature, and extreme storms.
Oil prices have surged to more than $100 per barrel, as China, India, and other oil-importing countries join the United States in a massive scramble to buy up supplies, especially from the Middle East.
On the other hand, heat waves, droughts, floods, and other disasters induced by climate change are destroying crops and reducing the
supplies
of grains on world markets.
Now competition for those
supplies
is intensifying, as China, India, and others bid for the same (depleting) resources.
As a result, farmers can travel shorter distances to acquire needed
supplies.
Supplies
of private-sector securities are limited, reflecting the dominance of bank lending in Europe and depressed sentiment in securitization markets.
Many are seeking to shield themselves from Russia’s capricious embargos – for example, by seeking alternative energy
supplies.
They are taking concrete actions, such as ensuring that essential malaria-control interventions are exempted from taxes and tariffs that add unnecessary costs to life-saving items, and that
supplies
are purchased in bulk to reduce costs.
A common energy policy and integrated energy markets would benefit businesses and consumers (not least in the UK) and reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign
supplies.
During the past couple of years, NATO’s funding policy has been updated to allow common funding to be used as an incentive for the provision of certain theater-level enabling capabilities, like medical facilities, airports handling troops and supplies, or intelligence.
Communism never stopped Arab regimes opposed by the United States from accepting arms
supplies
from the Soviet-era Russians, but it did prevent Russia from securing the kind of intimate influence that America had secured with its regional allies.
Now, as we begin to confront the inevitable exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies, we are asking agriculture to satisfy some of our energy appetite, as well.
Drones are delivering health
supplies
to remote locations in poor countries.
Civil society groups report the arrests of opposition electoral candidates, the manipulation of food
supplies
for political purposes, and violent incidents of voter intimidation.
In particular, the European Commission should insist that Ukraine be able to continue to import gas from Gazprom in order to augment European
supplies.
The second ingredient is the infrastructure that all economic growth requires: roads, bridges, ports, and schools, as well as reliable
supplies
of electricity and clean water.
Factories need reliable
supplies
of power to operate effectively, good roads and railways to source inputs and distribute products, and, if they are to export those products, ports for cargo ships and airports for high-value items and business travel.
Following the devastation caused by Cyclone Winston in February 2016, these strategically placed
supplies
help to address women and girls’ immediate reproductive-health needs, saving the lives of mothers and children.
Ukraine’s industries need to modernize, not become more addicted to cheap gas, and gas transit will become almost as monopolistic as gas supply – a dismal prospect, given past cut-offs of gas
supplies
between Russia and Europe.
Furthermore, the flow of military
supplies
from Iran, together with battlefield support for Assad’s regime from Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, reinforce the perception of a Sunni-Shia conflict in Syria.
All the while, Moscow is playing a game of “divide and rule” by exploiting Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas
supplies.
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