Warfare: Food Supply/Access

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Found a link to this 2014 podcast by Professor Paul Rogers, from Bradford University, whose approach to security is different: Human Security and it is a broad brush analysis - which includes the role of food.
Link:http://www.tansey.org.uk/news/PRtalk.html

Food production and climate change starts at 14:54. To be fair the more I listen, it is interesting and just about fits here!

Since 2012 there have been a small number of posts on the purchase, development and sometimes using imported labour on agricultural land. IIRC with China and Saudi Arabia to the fore.

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A BBC News pointer to a Chatham House report; it starts with:

The world's food security is increasingly reliant on 14 "chokepoints" for trade, a think-tank report has warned.
UK-based Chatham House says more needs to be done to protect key transport routes such as the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal and the Turkish Straits.
Almost 25% of the world's food is traded on international markets.
This, the report says, makes food supply and prices vulnerable to unforeseen crises or climate change.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40415756