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To Sure Up Island Food Security, Hawaii’s ‘Mahiai Match-Up’ Competition Offers Farmers Land and Seed Money
By Jeana Cadby, originally published by Seedstock
October 4, 2016
Tags: building resilient food systems, food policy, food security, indigenous lifeways
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