Food supplies have held up during the coronavirus pandemic, defying warnings from economists that rising protectionist policies and disruptions at ports and to truck routes would lead to global shortages.

Covid-19 has ravaged communities world-wide and disrupted transport routes and processing plants, but developing countries have stepped up to fill supply gaps and some nations have abandoned protectionist policies adopted earlier in the pandemic, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The…

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