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- The report “A New Geopolitics of Food” was released by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).
- The report states that trade wars, military conflicts, and weakening multilateral institutions are reshaping global food systems.
- It highlighted that food is increasingly being used as a tool of war and economic coercion in global hunger hotspots.
- The report discussed Public Food Stockholding (PSH), under which governments procure, store, and distribute food grains for food security.
- India’s Public Food Stockholding programme supports the National Food Security Act, 2013 and is managed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI).
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