U.S. Drought impacts Indonesia

I went looking to find a tempe factory to illustrate a point about food (in)security as the price of tempe in Indonesia has rapidly increased due to a major drought in the U.S. (from where Indonesia imports the bulk of its soybeans).  It was a pleasure to find that most of Jakarta’s tempe is made not in a huge impersonal industrial setting but in thousands of small home workshops.

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