Food scarcity in Australia soon
The ABC has initiated a terrific documentary on food production in Australia and worldwide and the first installment, Selling the farm, is here:
Some data in the program comes from Julian Cribb in a new book to be published this week, The Coming Famine, by University of California Press and the CSIRO.
As far as my research shows the only government exploring Australia’s food growing capacity is Victoria’s. It’s not on the agenda of the main parties or governments at local, state or federal levels.
This is a beaut development and will add some useful facts and opinions to the growing debate about how, where and why we grow food in Australia. We’ll see the one third of our cities taken up by roads become a greater part of the debate, too.
