By Mehmet Enes Beşer Well before the recent memory global rice price spike, food insecurity had already become more entrenched in its grip on Southeast Asia. Already in the region were millions of individuals experiencing limited access to healthy, affordable food based on a mix of structural risk factors, socio-economic disparities, and more severe weather patterns. Climate change today is ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Within geopolitics increasingly defined by supply chain interruption, climatic uncertainty, and rising food costs, food security has become a matter of national priority. While great powers vie to obtain grain corridors and agricultural territory across borders, the smaller nations are also forging behind-the-scenes but influential alliances. A classic case in point is the new China-Laos cattle ...