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Importance of not taking our food for granted

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    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2017 December
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    Medium Digital
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    Economics & commerce > Feeding the World

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    Scope & contentBy Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG

    Back here in the UK our Christmas festivities are about to start and we look forward to another New Year.

    As the seasons and years march on, in this ever changing and adapting world, farming and food production remain a constant necessity, something that whenever I can, I remind politicians of. I think at times they lose sight of mankind’s need for food, as they mostly are so very far divorced from the realities of food production. In our modern, urban, developed world, food is taken for granted; not so much in our less developed countries where wars and natural disasters cause mass famine and starvation. This should be unacceptable in today’s world.

    Natural disasters fire, flood and drought we can do little about, but the continual warring is totally man made and therefore avoidable… Read more.

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