In most countries, agriculture is the base load of the economy. If that part of the economy breaks, there is a complete breakdown of everything else. In countries where land is scarce, they would have secured supplies from neighboring nations. A lack of food will lead to economic disaster. One way this has happened is when locusts and fire devoured the land of the people of Israel according to the prophet Joel. It has also happened in modern times. Joel 1:4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten. Joel 1:19-20 O LORD, to You I cry out; For fire has devoured the open pastures, And a flame has burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field also cry out to You, For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has devoured the open pastures. However, something else caught my eye as I read this first chapter of Joel...