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Foods and Justice (Aliments et la justice)
It is unlikely that mankind go extinct in future due to a lack of foods.
But, some members of mankind are dying due to a lack of foods.
Ideally, foods must be provided free for everybody in the world.
SECTION I: Food Prices
A crisis is going to spread with wheat prices shooting up like in 2008, the year of the Wall Street crisis.
However, this time the increase in the global population might be a major cause for this trend.
Food self-sufficiency ratio of each nation in 2003 is as follows:
Islamic nations, except Pakistan, Sudan, and those in central Asia, suffer shortage of foods.
China, India, and Russia produce agricultural products a little less than they consume.
The U.S., Canada, Australia, and Argentina, each with a wider area of their land, are exporting foods.
The future food prices in the global market will depend on their relationships.
The Food Self-Sufficiency Rate in 2007:
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Australia...173%
Canada...168%
USA...124%
France...111%
Germany...80%
UK...65%
Italy...63%
JAPAN...40%
SECTION II: World Climates & Agriculture
If $4 trillion had been spent by the U.S. not for the War on Terror but for the War on Desertification or projects for tree-planting in deserts, 10% of deserts in the Middle East should have been turned to forests by now.
There is land on the globe enough for agriculture production to feed all the population in the world, if the number should grow twice larger.
There are technologies to expand agricultural land or convert wild land or deserts to agriculture land.
But, global market economy hinders it. A strong country would rather destroy agriculture systems in a weak country so as to force the latter to import agriculture products from the former. Then, the strong country can earn big money. A strong international agriculture business would do the same thing directly or indirectly through a strong country.
In this context, the global food issue is a matter of justice rather than technologies.
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Christ Jesus saved people not by improving agriculture but through teaching faith in the God.
Therefore, agriculture should be practiced through faith in the God.
Even today, in Japan, every village in a farming region has at least one dedicated shinto shrine, with or without a shinto priest in charge living there, and some Buddhist temples according to their schools.
Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.