Search query: The future of global food security
Video title:  For most Americans, the panic buying has stopped and things have, for the most part, calmed down. But for millions of others, things have gotten way worse. The largest food bank network in the country to feed America food banks. already sas that they will fall short by one point four billion dollars this year. Food insecurity has gotten a lot of attention during the pandemic. And this is something that's going to,. If things aren't drastically changed in the world, is set to get worse for sure. We like to talk about this and use the metaphor of the perfect storm. The U.N. estimates we're going to see one hundred and thirty two million. More people going hungry because of the pandemic and specifically because of the pandemic. Even though we're only eight months into this, this is our new normal. And I think that we take it day by day. In America, the richest nation on earth. Food insecurity has hit at least 52 million people,. An increase of 17 million people from pre-pandemic times. That's a mind boggling number for the richest country in the world. And it really does come down to whether people have enough money to eat. Those obstacles are because of how farms,. The government, and the supply chain all worked before the pandemic. And needed to adjust to a new world. And whether or not they can is the difference between whether millions of people. Will go to bed hungry in the coming months or not. It's not too difficult to understand why so many Americans are going hungry. It comes down to a few factors. The big one is the economic factor. Millions of people are being thrown out of work all around the world. And so it means that they just don't have the money to be able to afford to eat. In the ways that they used to do. When millions of Americans start losing their jobs and the economy begins to suffer,.