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Food and Desert Countries

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How would you stabilize the price of food in desert countries?

If you can answer the question
you might get peace in the Middle East.
Maybe using solar power to make food from thin air? I do not have time to explain the science behind it, cos I am gonna finish up Dune Part 2, but this is a legit technology.

 
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If they are close to the ocean,
they can also have fish farms.
That is true also.

So, fish farms, greenhouses and Solein could help deserts make food. Of course, the company that makes this stuff has to have some fancy graphics.
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Some types of chickens can live in the desert.
Ooh, that could work. Just make sure the chickens get enough food and water.

It would be nice if we could re-green the entire desert, however, deserts are important for the Earth (in small quantities): Animals in the Tropical Desert
 
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Trace elements might help. I can't find a reference online but I remember way back in primary school when we were learning about the Overland Telegraph Line in Australia.

It was set up between Adelaide and Darwin way back in 1872. Most of the land it traversed was desert or arid.

Apparenlty some rolls of copper wire were dropped around some of the poles (possibly for future use if required).

Where they were dropped lush green grass grew in a desert environment. They supplied the missing trace elements.


It would be a big job trying to "fertilise" the Austalian or Saharan deserts, apart from the issue of no rain.

As a pipedream I sometimes wonder if it would be possible to dig a channel from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Southern Ocean to provide a water presence across Australia (which is the driest continent). It's almost certainly not feasible but I sometimes daydream about it.
 
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How would you stabilize the price of food in desert countries?

If you can answer the question
you might get peace in the Middle East.
Peace is not a food question in the Middle East. They know to can desalinate seawater for irrigation, and the world'd help them to do it. 1 kmq solar panels'd be sufficient to irrigate about 30 kmq(1 kmq solar panels -> about 0.1 Twh -> about 30e6 m3 of fresh water with reverse osmosis -> 30 kmq x 1 meter of available fresh water). But it's not the problem of the Middle East
 
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Peace is not a food question in the Middle East. They know to can desalinate seawater for irrigation, and the world'd help them to do it. 1 kmq solar panels'd be sufficient to irrigate about 30 kmq(1 kmq solar panels -> about 0.1 Twh -> about 30e6 m3 of fresh water with reverse osmosis -> 30 kmq x 1 meter of available fresh water). But it's not the problem of the Middle East
The Middle East makes most of their money selling oil.
Then they import food into the desert.

That means wild swings in the price of oil,
can cause wild swings in the price of food.
 
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Peace is not a food question in the Middle East. They know to can desalinate seawater for irrigation, and the world'd help them to do it. 1 kmq solar panels'd be sufficient to irrigate about 30 kmq(1 kmq solar panels -> about 0.1 Twh -> about 30e6 m3 of fresh water with reverse osmosis -> 30 kmq x 1 meter of available fresh water). But it's not the problem of the Middle East
Peace might be more of an oil question (and a theocracy question, as some countries in the Middle East are run by dictators or an iron fist). The US should have never gotten involved in the Middle East. Wouldn't it be cool if we could cover just 1% of the entire desert in the Middle East with solar panels?
 
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The Middle East makes most of their money selling oil.
Then they import food into the desert.

That means wild swings in the price of oil,
can cause wild swings in the price of food.
That is true as well. For a Middle Easterner, food will be easier to get when a lot of oil gets sold by the Middle East. We as a world need a diverse energy mix in order to be more stable, but hey, I am just a young man in his mid-20s, not an economist.
 
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