Food needs 'fundamental rethink'

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	Food needs 'fundamental rethink'

egsnyder

1-2-2009 1:57 PM

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food, environment, sustainability

egsnyder says:

"Essentially, what we are dealing with at the moment is a food system that was laid down in the 1940s," he told BBC News.

It followed on from the dust bowl in the US, the collapse of food production in Europe and starvation in Asia.

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