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Food In My Back Yard (Fimby) Implementing Urban Agriculture Into Australian Suburbs, Ned Wales, Nicole Webb
Food In My Back Yard (Fimby) Implementing Urban Agriculture Into Australian Suburbs, Ned Wales, Nicole Webb
Ned Wales
The recent climatic events, economic uncertainty and peak oil are leading to greater levels of awareness of our vulnerability for food supply and security. During the summer of 2010/11 much of the east coast of Australia was inundated with record rainfall and proceeding flooding, which impacted on food delivery from regional production areas to urban markets. Consequently, many of our major food outlets in suburban neighbourhoods ran critically low in supply and price increases were significant. These events have lead to a wider dialog on where does our food come from and how can we ensure food supply as we …