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by extrapickles 3131 days ago
We also have a staggering amount of food already canned/frozen or grown in greenhouses just to make sure staple foods are available year-round.

Thanks to plastic, greenhouses are cheap and easy to make, so even poorer countries would fare reasonably well. What is harder to predict is how well greenhouses already in colder climates would fare.