Sentences with phrase «world grain reserves»

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food - exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

But now these two safety cushions are gone: the U.S. cropland set - asides have been phased out, and over the last decade world grain reserves have averaged a dangerously low 74 days of consumption.

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In 1972, when the world suffered an exceptionally poor harvest, there were 209 million metric tons of grain, or 66 days» worth, in world reserve.

Because the world's grain reserves during that period fell to the lowest levels in several decades.

note 1; Brian Wright, International Grain Reserves and Other Instruments to Address Volatility in Grain Markets, Working Paper presented at the World Grain Forum 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, 6 — 7 June 2009, p. 22.

In combination with the continuing growth of human population, the increasing demand for grains to feed livestock, depletion of reserves of fossil groundwater and increasing levels of water pollution, human - induced global warming poses a serious and growing threat to half the world's population.