CLIMATE IMPACTS ON UK FOOD IMPORTS - SPOTLIGHT ON: CLIMATE-VULNERABLE COUNTRIES

India - source of much of the UK’s rice imports The UK provided £10 million of technical assistance support to the agriculture department of the Government of Bihar, in one of the poorest parts of India, as part of a programme to target small and marginal fruit and vegetable farmers. [...] From the emergence of the Silk Road in the second century BCE, through countless shifts in the centre of power globally as empires rose and fell, past the Bretton Woods system of economic and trading rules post-second world war, to today’s global shipping routes and just-in-time supply chains, the world has become smaller and trade more globalised. [...] In Colombia, the north-western part of the country is home to most of the country’s production, with 70% of the area of the region of Antioquia growing bananas. [...] Mangoes are one of the most widely cultivated fruits in the world, the tree considered indigenous to south Asia, but now grown in central and south America, the Caribbean and parts of the Mediterranean. [...] EXPLAINER: avocados and the environment Avocados, in common with rice, contribute to the problem of climate change that can pose threats to the production of the product itself.