Strong framing on the redundancy-as-insurance point. The old efficiency logic treated local food systemsas wasteful duplication, but friend-shoring basically admits resilience has value we werent pricing in. I've seen regions that optimized away their ag capacity get crushed during supply shocks, suddenly paying 3x for imports they used to grow locally. The "peripheral to the periphery" line nails it, once you're outside the favored corridors you're not just disconnected, you're actively penalized for not being strategic enough.
Strong framing on the redundancy-as-insurance point. The old efficiency logic treated local food systemsas wasteful duplication, but friend-shoring basically admits resilience has value we werent pricing in. I've seen regions that optimized away their ag capacity get crushed during supply shocks, suddenly paying 3x for imports they used to grow locally. The "peripheral to the periphery" line nails it, once you're outside the favored corridors you're not just disconnected, you're actively penalized for not being strategic enough.
That is the new globalization: resilience has a cost, but it may actually save you money in the long run .