Food is a source of joy and comfort but how we produce it is crucial to our collective survival. Lolo Houbein is a South Australian food security advocate and writer.
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I don’t think anything is more important than challenging the notion that ‘they’ will solve the current poly-crisis and keep people safe and fed via existing and new technologies, economic policies and political negotiation. They won’t. It’s time for ordinary people to try to do it for themselves.
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