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What Happens Next?
Is Food Insecurity Getting Worse? | 77

Have you noticed your grocery bill rising lately? Get used to it.

When we think of “food insecurity”, many of us think of extreme poverty in the global south, not of Australia and other first-world countries. Nevertheless, food insecurity is a serious issue here – and one that will only continue to grow.

Climate change brings with it warmer temperatures and rising sea levels that threaten staple crops, and an increase in natural disasters that pressure supply chains already challenged by global events such as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This combination is creating a perfect storm, reducing access to reliable food sources even for the most privileged among us.

Who's facing food insecurity? How will we feed more people than ever on an ever-warming planet? And what can we do to help?

Season 7 of Monash University’s podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns from hiatus with an investigation into food security. Host Dr Susan Carland’s expert guests include dietitians Dr Sue Kleve and Liza Barbour, plant scientist Professor Ros Gleadow, and Ian Carson AM, a Monash alumnus and co-founder of food rescue organisation SecondBite.

A full transcript of this episode is available on Monash Lens.

Learn more:

• Breadbasket case: The impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global supply chains
• Families and food insecurity: Walking the food security tightrope
• Cassava root: global food security and climate change - Monash Lens
• Trash talk: “What Happens Next?”

“What Happens Next?” will be back next week with part two of this series, “Can We Take a Bite Out of Food Insecurity?”.

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