Government is not completely ignorant of what is coming:
The US national security industry is planning for the impact of an unprecedented global food crisis lasting as long as a decade, according to reports by a government contractor.
The studies published by CNA Corporation in December 2015, unreported until now, describe a detailed simulation of a protracted global food crisis from 2020 to 2030.
The simulation, titled ‘Food Chain Reaction’, was a desktop gaming exercise involving the participation of 65 officials from the US, Europe, Africa, India, Brazil, and key multilateral and intergovernmental institutions…
By 2024, the scenario saw global food prices spike by as much as 395 percent due to prolonged crop failures in key food basket regions, driven largely by climate change, oil price spikes, and confused responses from the international community.
That is a little K-selection, but not the whole thing.
On the one hand, I tend to think that is a gross underestimate of what is coming, because it fails to take into account everything else that will accompany the Apocalypse, and synergistically accelerate the destruction. Bank holidays, criminal gangs, the fall of Big Agra’s mass production mechanisms, the failure of confidence in currency, mass unemployment, and destruction of the distribution mechanisms by raiding and crime will all make food more scarce and drive up the price.
On the other hand, the government did predict that a mere loss of electricity due to EMP would kill 90 percent of the population within one year. That sort of Apocalypse-related mortality would put quite a crimp in the demand side of the supply/demand calculation.
Factoring that in, 395 percent seems as if it could be just about right.