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Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago

Around 900,000 Kiwis experience food insecurity: it’s a quiet crisis that needs urgent attention

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Most New Zealanders are feeling the effects of a seemingly relentless rise in the cost of living – at the supermarket, the petrol pump and in their household energy bills. For some, however, this tips over into what scholars call “food insecurity”.

Perhaps the best way to define this is to look at the internationally accepted definition of its opposite – food security.

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