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797: Faith and Food Conference – making the connections

This briefing has been kindly prepared for RuSource by the Rev’d Caroline Pinchbeck, Rural Life Adviser for the Canterbury and Rochester dioceses. It summarises a conference held in Oxford on 28th February and organised by a group of Christians from in and around Oxford,

Year of Publication2009

Agriculture needs to be designed to feed the world by moving away from maximising profit and moving back to more traditional diets and labour intensive agriculture with the aid of science to aid productivity. The power of ’local’ cannot be overestimated. Trade liberalisation has encouraged developing countries need large food imports because they have been encouraged to focus on one or two products. The Amazon feeds Europe but leaves its people hungry.

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• Subject Collection > Food & drink

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