Conflict and food global food insecurity
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
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Supply Chains
75% of the world's calories come from eight crops. The incentives are to grow them at scale and intensity because then you kind of corner the global market. So those crops typically coming from five or six major bread basket areas, so maize, largely the Midwest with a bit of China,. Soy and sugar, largely Latin America, wheat, largely Europe, rice, Southeast Asia, barley across some of those other grain growing areas. Oil palm oil and so on from Indonesian Malaysia.
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