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Agriculture This Week: Redefining food security: More than just money

Recently I spent some time in a garden talking beans and as we wound down the actual interview we ended up sitting on a couple of lawn chairs in the shade of a bin.

As often happens in such cases the conversation soon wandered to other topics, which at least had ancillary connections to beans, beans, even if not exactly material for the article I was doing.

One topic that did pop up was the idea of what exactly food security is?

Most are likely to suggest it comes down to earning enough money to buy the food the family requires, but in the conversation that day in the shade we questioned if that wasn’t missing the point of being food secure.

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