Diverging Strategies Emerge As Geopolitical Risks Rise In Food And Agri

2025-06-04 09:49:00 ET

Summary

• Geopolitical risks are gaining importance in the food and agriculture sector, prompting calls for the development of more formal risk policies.
• The business leaders we spoke to are tackling the issue in different ways.
• European companies are on average more exposed to shifts because the EU is more open to trade and has a bigger dependency on energy, raw materials and technology, relative to other regions.

By Thijs Geijer & Warren Patterson

When dependencies become vulnerabilities

Running a global food and agriculture business means being reliant on many things, including weather, politics, economics and technology. But with heightened geopolitical uncertainty, such dependencies are viewed in a different light. Or as former ECB President Mario Draghi put it, “dependencies are becoming vulnerabilities”....

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