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AS THE WESTERN WORLD LETS its belt out yet another notch, close to a billion of the world’s population are chronically undernourished. What chance of feeding another 2 billion by 2050?
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Andrews, P., Wood, F. (2014). Living off the Land. In: Überpreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376152_15
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