Economic and political systems can influence development for decades, shaping food production with lingering effects. These path dependencies of national and international agriculture are examined in a study that links wheat production in the United States and the vulnerability of poorer nations to food insecurity.
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Magnan, A. Food regimes and the geopolitics of wheat. Nature Plants 3, 914–915 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0073-x
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