food security

While confirming the import ban, Bashe assured Tanzanians that it would not threaten their food security.

"The tactic kills two birds with one stone. It deprives America's farm belt of a once‑captive market and burnishes China's food security credentials," says Marina Yue Zhang, associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney's Australia-China Relations Institute.

As these forces collide, the question remains: Can the nation’s safety net survive without unraveling the very fabric of food security it was designed to protect?

“Now, they are bringing partisan politics directly to the cafeteria table, threatening our children’s food security as a mechanism to force states to comply with a national ideological agenda. This is flat-out wrong.”

But India has fiercely protected it, citing food security, livelihoods and interests of millions of small farmers.