See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Emerson_Humanitarian_Trust
Virtually every scientist knows that our civilization is on the edge of massive harvest failures. We can’t predict when and where failures will happen, but we know that continued global warming will render large areas too hot or dry or flood prone for their historical crops and livestock. Yet we have no strategic food reserves. We abandoned such safety measures in favor of price manipulation back in the 1990's.
Hopefully, farm practices can adjust to gradual changes in climate, but there will always be periods of mismatch and low production.
I believe that we should have an international convention to identify areas of Antarctica where vast numbers of grain-filled shipping containers sealed with nitrogen gas can be parked without upsetting local flora and fauna. The convention could supervise rational allocation of container-parking spaces among participating nations.
Nations owning the reserves would be able to use them to satisfy their own needs and to sell or lend them to other nations – those with fertility rates below three babies per mother. The reserves should not be sold to nations with higher fertility rates.
We could experience a temporary crop failure due to global warming and the opposite. For example, a large volcanic eruption or a large asteroid collision could bring on a year or more of dark and cool summers. A large solar storm could disable much of our communications and control apparatus at a critical time. And then there is the threat of nuclear winter.
It is irresponsible not to have a generous strategic food reserve. Any significant food shortage will result in a breakdown of social order the likes of which cannot be imagined.
The distribution of fertility rates is presented in the following map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Total_Fertility_Rate_Map_by_Country.svg
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