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The Shock to Food Systems

The Shock to Food Systems

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Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable

url: https://news.thin-ink.net/p/when-cheap-food-spells-trouble Tweet url:

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As a UN report into food insecurity states, diversity matters because it “creates multiple pathways for absorbing shocks”. Those shocks can be catastrophic.

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The fragility of food systems

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