Pedro Miguel locks along the Panama Canal. Photo: Gonzalo Azumendi via Getty Images.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks go to Johanna Lehne (Chatham House) for her invaluable research and data analysis; and to Richard King (Chatham House) for the development of the Chatham House Food Security Dashboard and for his comments on earlier drafts. Thanks also go to Professor Paul Stevens (Chatham House) for his analysis in the report.
The Chatham House Maritime Analysis Tool (CH-MAT) was developed by Laura Wellesley and Felix Preston (Chatham House); the authors thank Felix for his guidance and contributions from the start of this research.
Thanks also go to Dr Tristan Smith (University College London), Dr Conor Walsh (University of Manchester) and Dr Michael Traut (University of Manchester) for their early review of the Chatham House Maritime Analysis Tool, their reflections on preliminary findings, and their comments on an earlier draft of the report. Many thanks go to Professor Tim Benton (Chatham House), Cleo Paskal (Chatham House), Bernice Lee (Chatham House), Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti (University College London), Captain Andrew Tucci (US Coast Guard), and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of the report.
The authors are grateful to Jake Statham for his enthusiastic and meticulous editing of the report; to Amy Barry for her valuable guidance and support with media outreach; to Nick Capeling, Gitika Bhardwaj, Thomas Farrar, Jessica Pow and Lisa Toremark for their help with the digital launch; and to Autumn Forecast at Soapbox for her work on the design and production of the report.
We thank the team at Applied Works and Johanna Lehne for their expertise in translating our research into the interactive microsite ‘resourcetrade.earth’.
We are also very grateful for the insights of those who participated in our workshop, ‘Anticipating and Mitigating Major Disruptive Risks to Global Food Trade’, held in London on 21 September 2015.
Many members of the Chatham House Energy, Environment and Resources Department – both staff and interns – provided research and administrative support throughout the process: first and foremost, Rachel Shairp and Ruth Quinn; together with Jaakko Kooroshy, Gemma Green, Elena Bignami, Anna Bordon, Claire Duval, Emilie Hobbs, Giulia Nicolini, Liam O’Flaherty, Ying Qin, Naomi Smith and Gemma Wardle.
Finally, thanks go to the MAVA Foundation for its generous support of this research.
Development of Chatham House’s ‘resourcetrade.earth’ was led by Felix Preston, Richard King and Siân Bradley. The underlying Chatham House Resource Trade Database builds on an earlier version developed by Jaakko Kooroshy.