Our interactive tool helps you see where food is exported from and where it goes – My local supermarket here in Scotland is full of foods that were grown and produced elsewhere: bananas from South America, cocoa beans from West Africa, and citrus fruits from my southern neighbors in Europe. This is the case in many parts of the world. Our food systems have become incredibly globalized.
Which countries do we depend on for this wide range of foods?
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
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