Article by Jane Dixon, featured in The Brisbane Link.

Food security is about a basic human right, our right to nutritious, sustainably produced and affordable food. It has, however, become a tremendously complex problem with many of the stakeholders seeing the issues only from their own narrow perspectives. Here, Jane Dixon pleads for a more holistic approach.

Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, when prices soared for staple commodities, there has been renewed interest in global and national food security. In Australia the debates continue, fuelled by speculation as to diminishing food productivity as a result of a decade-long drought followed by successive natural disasters affecting the country’s major food bowls in Southern Queensland and Victoria’s Goulburn Valley.

Sandwiched between these events, the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council recommended a national food security agency be established. Meanwhile, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry established…

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