FOOD SUSTAINABILITY: "Future farms over our heads"

Sydney Morning Herald
12 October 2008

AUSTRALIAN cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says.

Professor Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine, said the global food crisis was a forewarning of what could be expected as civilisation ran low on water, arable land and nutrients, and experienced soaring energy costs.

Professor Cribb said the urban farmers of the future - who would primarily grow vegetables - would play a much larger role in the global diet...

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