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Choking on a global scale
Thinktank Chatham House has analysed global food trade routes and identified 'chokepoints' -- places where large volumes of foods pass through bottlenecks, posing an unrecognised risk to the world's food system.
Chokepoints on global food routes are found at sea, on coasts and inland. They are relatively small bits of terrain or infrastructure -- canals, ports, routes -- which handle large volumes of traded commodities and finished foods. If they were disrupted or threatened, the consequences for the world's supply of foods could be swift and severe. Chatham House has mapped the chokepoints, and proposes some remedies, which include integrating 'chokepoint analysis' into mainstream risk assessment of the food system, and improving infrastructure to spread the risk. Read the report, Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade, here.
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Published Friday 21 July 2017
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