Decades after governments dismantled [music] food reserves and placed their faith in global trade, a growing number are rebuilding emergency stockpiles. From Sweden and Norway to India and Indonesia, states are withholding ever larger quantities of rice, wheat, and other staples as insurance against a world that they view as increasingly unstable. The return of food stockpiling reflects a convergence of shocks.Pandemic era disruptions, the wide ares generated by the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Gaza, Ven ...