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Interdisciplinary Conversations on Complexities of Food/In Security

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This chapter takes a novel approach to the issue of food security, interweaving four authors’ different interdisciplinary perspectives, but shared experience of living in regional Australia. The authors present their model of food security developed as an outcome of their conversation across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries to illustrate the range of interdependent factors involved in food security issues.

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    Epigenetics is defined as “… a functional modification to the DNA that does not involve an alteration of sequence” (Meaney 2010a p. 57).

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  1. Hunter New England Health Service, New Lambton, NSW, Australia

    Roslyn Foskey & Alan Avery

  2. University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

    Roslyn Foskey, Margaret Sims & David Brunckhorst

  3. University of New castle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

    Alan Avery

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    Joanne Millar

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Foskey, R., Avery, A., Sims, M., Brunckhorst, D. (2013). Interdisciplinary Conversations on Complexities of Food/In Security. In: Farmar-Bowers, Q., Higgins, V., Millar, J. (eds) Food Security in Australia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4484-8_4

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