Food disruptions from the pandemic, war show the need for strong local supply chains. Yet the US and others won’t learn.

Siera Vercillo is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow of Development and Environmental Studies at the Univ... ersity of Waterloo where she contributes to feminist political ecology scholarship of food. She holds a PhD in Geography and has been working with smallholder farmers in West Africa for the past decade.
Food disruptions from the pandemic, war show the need for strong local supply chains. Yet the US and others won’t learn.
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