The Looming Global Food Crisis — How Hunger and Famine Will Trigger Instability

In this section of the August 2026 episode of FO Exclusive, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle warn that the Iran war is disrupting the energy, fertilizer and shipping systems that modern agriculture depends on. These disruptions combined with other factors could reduce harvests, drive food inflation and starve millions. Notably, poorer countries face the risk of famine, social unrest and political destabilization.

 Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and FOI Senior Partner Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer who now advises companies, governments and organizations on geopolitical risk, examine how the US–Israeli war against Iran could precipitate a global food crisis. Disrupted energy and fertilizer supplies, rising shipping costs, weakening currencies and an exceptionally powerful El Niño threaten harvests around the world. Atul and Glenn warn that the resulting hunger could trigger social unrest, sovereign defaults and political upheaval, particularly across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

 Food inflation threatens political stability 

As pointed out repeatedly by Atul and Glenn, the Hormuz crisis has caused a massive energy and fertilizer crisis. This global crisis is increasing food inflation. Monetary policies are worsening this inflation.  

International staples such as wheat, corn and soybeans are priced in dollars. As FOI has pointed out repeatedly, post-Covid monetary easing debased the dollar. As many have noticed, groceries cost far more than before. 

In poorer countries, this inflation is a lot worse. Many currencies in emerging markets are depreciating against the dollar. Thanks to the exchange-rate multiplier effect, food prices are rising in many poorer countries even faster than in the US. Note that high food prices helped trigger the Arab Uprisings at the end of 2010. 

Glenn emphasizes the political consequences of the upheavals in 2010. Food inflation did not single-handedly cause the Arab Uprisings. Corruption, unemployment, repression and political exclusion had already generated deep frustration. Yet rising prices transformed those grievances into household emergencies. Governments become far more vulnerable when families can no longer afford bread. As Atul says repeatedly, “revolutions depend on the price of bread.” (Read More / Watch)

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Senior Reseaarcher Brad Myers comments;

Could there come a time in the future when poor and middle-class families all over the world, including in the US, Canada, and the UK, will no longer be able to afford a loaf of wheat bread, because it will cost a full day's pay? 

Are current global trends in 2026 pointing toward a worldwide financial collapse ? Across the globe, do we see wars spreading, famine threatening fragile regions, and essential commodities like food and fuel becoming increasingly expensive and scarce, all while the wealth gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen?

Do you know where all these global trends are leading in the future, and whether they will lead to what we see in Revelation 6:5–6?