More than 6 million tonnes of food is...
or more than 6 million tonnes of food are
It's "are". I suppose there is a context in which one would be tempted to construe those tonnes as a single unit, but ordinarily, they are plural.
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It's "are". I suppose there is a context in which one would be tempted to construe those tonnes as a single unit, but ordinarily, they are plural.