Famine Affected Some 130 Million in 2005!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update Number 20
Luke 21:11 – And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and FAMINES and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
In the past the major culprits
that have always been responsible for famines were war and drought. However, as I indicated in my first book in the seventies, the world population explosion w
as beg inn
ing to be an ever increasing factor and, in time, would be the major culprit.
Please take a look in our Prophecy Archives at Update Number 20. The ever increasing population factor is now in full gear.
According to the World Food Program (WFP), hunger is the number one cause of death in the world today.
The WFP announced recently it had fed 130 million people in 2005, and that this was the largest number of beneficiaries since the agency was formed 42 years ago.
According to a February 2, 2006 article in the Guardian Unlimited, the United Nations figures show “Sub-Saharan Africa is in the grip of an extraordinary hunger crisis, with more than 40-million people needing emergency food aid across 36 countries.” It has risen to that figure in Sub-Saharan from 21-million in 1995.
Some say don’t worry, agricultural technology will solve the famine problem. No way! The latest U.N. study found ten percent of the world’s soil profile badly damaged.
The three-year study accessed soil conditions on a global scale, and involved more than 250 soil scientists. It marked the first time since World War II that soil profiles had been assessed on a global scale. As reported by Larry B.
Stammer in the Los Angeles Times, the study found that “about two-thirds of all seriously eroded land is in Asia and Africa, home to most of the world’s poor.” The article, using the report as its basis, stated: “Despite the much acclaimed green revolution of the past several decades, which produced unprecedented gains in food production through the introduction of fertilizers and hybrid grains, the per-capita food production has declined in about eighty developing countries in the past decade.”
The report, “Vital Signs 1993: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future,” as reported by David Brisco in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of July 18, 1993, stated: “This new report shows the first clear sign that population is outpacing the food available for humans.
The trend is mostly because of record world population growth, but also reflects a slowdown in decades of increasing food supplies.
The main sources of food – farms, ranches, and oceans – all appear to be approaching, or may have reached, their maximum per-capita output, according to Vital Signs 1993.” The simple truth is this, the world’s maximum food production, in the 21st century, has not been able to keep up with the stork, and the ever increasing population will cause it to fall farther and farther behind. Earthquakes, pestilence, and famine will continue to increase the pain of God’s creation while it awaits the manifestation of his sons at the appearance of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
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