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Coronavirus and global food chains

13/05/2020 GMT

Feeding a world in lockdown

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Lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic have disrupted global food supply chains

Lockdowns have disrupted the global food supply chain and changed the range of products people in the rich world see in supermarkets. Will these changes become the 'new normal'?

Lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic have disrupted global food supply chains and limited the range of products on supermarket shelves in the rich world. Could new buying habits stick even after lockdowns end? Will less choice and seasonal produce become the 'new normal'? Manuela Saragosa talks to Guy Singh Watson of Riverford Organic Farmers in the UK, who welcomes the change in what's on offer, and Abdoul Wahab Barry of the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Cote D'Ivoire, who tells us what the disruption means for farmers in West Africa. And Professor Richard Wilding from Cranfield School of Management, a logistics and supply chain expert, gives us his take on what supply chains will look like in the future.
(Image: Nearly empty pasta shelves in supermarket; Credit: Press Association)

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