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Now you understand the forces that have shaped our food supply chains for the products that you are studying

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Now you understand the forces that have shaped our food supply chains for the products that you are studying. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed some weaknesses in our food supply chain, impacting some food products more than others, and some people more than others through their work or through their ability to acquire food. Longer term forces such as climate change will impact our supply chains in the near term and longer term.

Let’s bring together the examples of different foods that everyone has been studying to think about today’s food supply chain challenges related to production, processing, and distribution:

• Describe current constraints in your food’s supply chain (e.g., drought, disease, labor, health impacts, natural resources, markets, trade policies, etc.).
• What technological, policy, social, or other changes are possible to remove these constraints?

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20 points--START EARLY! For full points, you need to respond to classmates and respond to your classmates' questions or comments on your post. If you post on the last day, you may not have questions or comments to respond to in order to earn all of the points available!

• 10 points: Your original response to the prompt
• 5 points: Respond to 2 classmates with a question or comment
• 5 points: Respond to comments or questions addressing your original post