Buy Local Is Key to Food Crisis ; Two Little Words Should Be at the Very Top of the Government's New Food Policy, Published Today in Answer to Global Concerns About How We Feed Ourselves.

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Two little words should be at the very top of the Government's new food policy, published today in answer to global concerns about how we feed ourselves.

Buy Local may have started as a Western Morning News campaign to improve the lot of the Westcountry farmer, in the aftermath of the devastating foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, growing into a regional policy designed to boost the South West food-based economy.

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Buy Local Is Key to Food Crisis ; Two Little Words Should Be at the Very Top of the Government's New Food Policy, Published Today in Answer to Global Concerns About How We Feed Ourselves.

But it has come of age as the global food crisis bites, providing answers, not just for the benefit of the agricultural community, but for the health of the individual, the goo...

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