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Benjamin Shepherd

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Researcher in the Food Security Program at the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney

In Ethiopia, the short food supply chain has enabled consumers and food growers to have a direct relationship with each other. Benjamin Shepherd

April 12, 2012

Sustainable food supply chains: what we can learn from Greece and Ethiopia

Benjamin Shepherd, University of Sydney

Poverty is definitely not some bucolic ideal that we should romanticise. It is ugly, brutal and should be fought against. But there are lessons from the poor that we, in affluent (and frequently complacent…

The Tsar Bomba nuclear test is the largest ever nuclear explosion recorded, measuring 50 megatons and generating a 64km high mushroom cloud. flickr/andy_z

November 30, 2011

Australia’s opportunity to develop an ethical uranium trade

Benjamin Shepherd, University of Sydney

As the Australian Labor Party contemplates opening sales of uranium to India, it would be wise for our policy-makers to think more broadly about the long-term possibilities for Australia as a provider…

Filling bellies is about far more than just supply and demand. hypertornado

September 20, 2011

Food security should be about feeding the hungry, not making a profit

Benjamin Shepherd, University of Sydney

We need to stop thinking about food security as an economic problem. Food security is largely discussed in terms of increasing demand pressures and worsening constraints on supply. These discussions miss…

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