John Gibbons
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Much everything that we eat in this country arrives here by ship.
Pretty much.
Now, if those shipping lanes for any reason were to be closed or shut down, or an extension of the chaos we've seen in the Gulf of Vermuz, like we we know, for example, the Panama Canal is struggling because of low water levels.
So we see major pin pinch points in global food supply systems, and of course, on top of that, we're also looking at the
Spectre of multiple breadbasket failures, which in simple terms means that normally the the production, the food production in the world is spread around major breadbasket areas like Canada, like Ukraine, like Russia, and so on.
And these produce these are massive exporters of food.
Countries like Ireland, we we sort of take the easy route and we just import pretty much everything that we need.
Like for example, the loaf of bread you had today, I can guarantee you that the flour for that bread
was not produced.
The grain for that flour was not produced on this island.
It may have come from France, it may have come from Canada.
Now, France this year has seen its cereal harvests tumble by four to five million tons.
They've had one of the worst uh h harvests on record, obviously Ukraine and Russia, both their harvests are down.
And the critical thing for people to understand about this is that countries export their surpluses, Matt, right?
So let's say a country loses 20% of its uh grain production.
Now, what it does is it doesn't starve its own population.
It simply says, Right, we're not we we'll stop exporting and we'll feed our own population.
This happened, for example, in 2010.
There was a major drought where Russia uh curtailed grain exports and prices shot up.
So that this is the backdrop to my pitch.
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