Food security presents real and growing challenges to Australia, an Australian Parliament’s Agriculture Committee inquiry has found.
The inquiry into food security in Australia examined ways to strengthen and safeguard Australia’s food security, focusing on production, supply chains and key inputs, as well as climate change, biosecurity and food insecurity.
Handing down the report today, committee chair, Meryl Swanson MP, said food security is not something Australia can continue to take for granted.
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