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Tackling food poverty on a local and national level

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 23 December 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

Food poverty, or insecurity, is a personal tragedy for many people. More than 350,000 people had to turn to emergency food banks between April and September this year, according to...

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