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Arab World: COVID-19 Lockdown Triggers Food Shortages Fears Arab World: COVID-19 Lockdown Triggers Food Shortages Fears The pandemic has limited the number of ground employees working in transit areas. (Shuttertsock) Highlights Levant countries are particularly vulnerable as they are plagued by collapsing economies, conflict and corruption. COVID-19 has triggered fears of food shortages across the Arab region. Distributors and experts now warn that the pandemic is creating significant disruptions in global food networks and inflation in food prices, to which Levant countries are more vulnerable than other Arab states. A slowdown in shipping, movement restrictions and border closures are impeding the production and transport of food products at the global level. Thousands of containers are now left stranded across ports and airports, as ships and aeroplanes remain grounded because of strict lockdowns and confinement measures imposed by international governments. Fewer ships and fewer flights make food exports more expensive and complicated, warns Hani Bohsali, president of the Syndicate of Importers of Foodstuffs, Consumer Products and Drinks, which represents around 50 importers in Lebanon."

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By Shawn Tran | Special to the Daily Cal Toasted cockroaches. Fried dung beetles. Smoked locusts. Insect-eating is common in countries such as China, Mexico, Thailand and Cambodia, less so in the United States. Some experts have pitched insects as a solution to the global food crisis, citing more efficient land use and water resource management. But do we really want to eat insects? Aside from extreme environmentalists, it would probably be difficult to persuade people who are not used to eating insects to change their diets from beef to beetles."

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