Back to food....
In the Netherlands there have been farmer protests against a government policy to buy out farms. Why? Nitrogen pollution in the water near sensitive areas. About half of the nitrogen is from farm run off, or so the say, and the other half is from human waste water treatment. What I find interesting is that there is no discussion on cleaning up the human waste water treatment nor about the nitrogen pollution from other countries moving down river.
Roughly 20% of the farms would have to be bought out to lower the nitrogen pollution and another 20-25% of the farms would have to lower their production. Food is a world wide commodity, but in this case, it is more worse because the Netherlands are a food exporter. If this policy goes as some are planning, food prices will go up and there will be less food.
In Ireland, there is another government plan to lower climate change pollution. The government wants to lower this pollution by some big percentage but they do not specify HOW the farms are to meet this goal/requirement. The farmer are saying that the only way they know how to meet the numbers is to stop farming.
Both of these goals/requirements are based on EU studies and requirements.
Europe's energy crises is from bad, if not corrupt, energy policy which was happening before Mad Vlad started his war. Mad Vlad's war has just made the energy crisis worse, and because natural gas is used to make fertilizer, the cost of food has sky rocketed and will continue to do so until Europe changes their energy policies. Europe is going to have one heck of a recession due to their making their own energy crisis. Last winter, before Mad Vlad's war, energy prices were increasing and people were having to decide on food or being warm. It is far, far worse this year and going to get worse.
Unfortunately, the US is following the EU's energy policy...