Two lessons COVID taught us about the food supply

Paul Alward
8 min readJan 4, 2021

As COVID spread across the world in early 2020 it disrupted a highly integrated and interdependent food system, producing shortages, creating fear, and eroding confidence. Since the initial shock of the virus we’ve learned two important lessons. The first is a reminder that during times of crisis food scarcity isn’t a thing of the past or a problem solely for developing countries. The second is that the…

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Paul Alward

Farmer @VeritasFarms. Working with others to change the food system. @paul_alward