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Govt urged to nurture suburban food bowls
The Federal Government has been urged introduce policies to allow the
development of agriculture in Australian suburbs as a way of addressing
food security.
A senior research fellow at Griffith University's urban research
program says there will be increased pressure on urban areas to produce
food in the future.
Dr Jago Dodson says sustaining Australia's metropolitan areas will get harder as environmental issues and population growth impact food supplies."We need to start planning ahead and conceptualising what institutional and policy structures we need to have in place so that if we came to the point in the future that we had to rapidly expand our food production then we'd be easily able to do so," he said.
read more at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/22/2852294.htm
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