on farms meant that farmers weren t able to produce as much, or supply chain disruptions. a port closed in shanghai, or a back up in a port in la, those all have knock on effects on the food system. but also, what covid showed us is that once a supply chain is disrupted, it s really hard to shift it. ukraine shows us that as well. the biggest shock, which i haven t mentioned, but is probably the most existential is, of course, climate change. and what will that impact be? will people die in large numbers? or will we simply find other ways of feeding ourselves? prices are rising all over the world. some countries will absorb those price rises, and some countries won t. and the countries that will be worst affected are the ones that aren t producing the food that they eat themselves. so, a lot of north africa, the middle east, they eat a huge amount of bread. it s their main staple, their main source of carbohydrates, but they don t grow a lot of wheat. and they ll grow even less as thei
of the wheat for sale on the global market. why is it having such an outsized effect? and that s because our global food systems were in this really precarious position anyway at the beginning of this year. and that s because of a series of shocks all happening at the same time which, to some extent, is bad luck, and to some extent is just the system just not being strong enough to be able to withstand the shock. so, things like the pandemic, of course, which affected food supply in so many different ways, whether it means labour shortages on farms meant that farmers weren t able to produce as much, or supply chain disruptions. a port closed in shanghai, or a back up in a port in la, those all have knock on effects on the food system. but also, what covid showed us is that once a supply chain is disrupted, it s really hard to shift it. ukraine shows us that as well. the biggest shock, which i haven t mentioned, but is probably the most existential is, of course, climate change. and wha
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