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The chapter opens with an introduction to ethics, including the definition of key ethical concepts used in later discussion. This is followed by a brief summary of the problem that this chapter, as one part of the edited collection, seeks to address: how to achieve and maintain food security in Australia. Essential ethical dimensions of the framing of this problem are then highlighted: the development of national strategies for food security can only be ethical if it is informed by, and incorporates an appropriate response to, Australia’s global justice and global environmental obligations. Finally, key ethical dimensions of some proposed strategies for achieving and maintaining food security in Australia are identified and discussed.
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It was reported in late 2010 that an investigation into foreign investment in farming would be jointly carried out by the Rural Industries Research Development Corporation (RIRDC), the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Callick & Kerr, 2010). For more details about the relevant project (‘Foreign Investment and Australian Agriculture’), which is in progress at the time of writing, please see the RIRDC website at http://www.rirdc.gov.au/.
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Rush, E. (2013). Ethics of Food Security. In: Farmar-Bowers, Q., Higgins, V., Millar, J. (eds) Food Security in Australia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4484-8_3
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