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Only a handful of nations export food and even fewer international trading firms handle those exports.
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Only a handful of nations export food and even fewer international trading firms handle those exports.
These three levels of continuing concentration — too few exportable food choices from too few international sources handled by too few, secretive merchandisers — all but guarantees any minor food access problem anywhere in the world soon becomes a major food access problem everywhere in the world.
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