Zoom discussion: The Food Crisis (+ Heatwave)

Food. Can't live without it. Literally.

From the supply chain problems of the covid lockdown years, to the inflation and Ukraine war of 2022, and growing impacts of the climate crisis on harvests, the global food system is not quite what it was.

In Global North countries, there is less variety, poor people are struggling more than ever to afford what's there, and most on middle incomes are economising as money stretches less than before. Geopolitical analysts (e.g. Timothy Snyder, Peter Zeihan) have described how Putin aims to starve, and force migration of, people in parts of the Global South.

How are you managing? What observations and analysis do you have of the situation?

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[Image credit, from the Economist: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe ]