stuttering supply chains

[GoodTaste]

Does “stuttering supply chains” mean “Often-Interrupted Supply chains”?


The coronavirus pandemic has laid many things bare, none more so than how interconnected our world is. The impact of globalization is most obvious in the stuttering supply chains that threaten food security worldwide. Maintaining or reweaving these webs is going to take technology, innovation and political determination.

Information source: from Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01181-3

 

[jutfrank]

By stuttering, the writer means that the supply is not flowing through the system as it normally does. Those potatoes, for example, are stuck at that farm.

 

[Yankee]

Yes, but not necessarily "often".

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I like often. When people stutter, their sentences can have a lot of interruptions.

It's true that it's not necessarily often, but the sense of the sentence seems to lean toward frequent interruptions.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, the potatoes are just one example of something that is happening frequently.