Roughly two-thirds of the human population lives in the temperate and near-temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere. This hemisphere is a net food importer. About the only good news is that the Southern Hemispheric temperate zones—regions highly resistant to the coming geopolitical storm—are very lightly populated compared to the Northern Hemisphere. That makes the countries of the global South big food exporters. But considering that the collective size of their agricultural regions is less than one-fifth that of the Northern Hemisphere . . . the global South can only help so much. Any
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