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Over the last 4-6 weeks, well over a dozen in depth and well researched articles have come out warning about the upcoming problems with the global food supply chain thanks to travel restrictions, temporary workers being denied the ability to cross borders, governments starting to hoard crops and also export bans.
Before the coronavirus outbreak, many farmers, especially American farmers, were already dealing with record bankruptcies. Farmaggedon was killing many dairy farmers and pork and soybean farmers as China put tariffs on those.
But, now #Farmaggedon looks to be far worse because of the coronavirus.
How will farmers pass along cost increases to customers if there’s price controls and export bans on their produce?
Articles About The Coronavirus Threatening Global Food Supply & Governments Hoarding or Banning Exports:
1) Will the Coronavirus Threaten Our Food? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/op…
2) The coronavirus pandemic could threaten global food supply, UN warns https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/asia/c…
3) As the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains, who will feed China? https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinio…
4) Feeding A Shutdown World: How COVID-19 Squeezes Supply Chains https://worldcrunch.com/coronavirus/f…
5) Canada, U.S. farms face crop losses due to foreign worker delays https://mobile.reuters.com/article/am…
6) Second larger wave of locusts attack East African countries https://www.thenational.scot/news/183…
7) Coronavirus may cause some food shortages, warns government task force https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-ma…
8) Food Security in Danger as Countries Hoard Food Amidst Coronavirus Crisis https://www.hngn.com/articles/228664/…
9) Countries follow consumers in stockpiling food https://dnyuz.com/2020/04/05/countrie…
10) Countries Starting to Hoard Food, Threatening Global Trade https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cou…
11) A Few Countries Are Creeping Toward Food Protectionism https://finance.yahoo.com/news/few-co…
12) Coronavirus upends global food supply chains in latest economic shock