The NFF’s 8 Nov 2012 response to the Government’s National Food Plan Green Paper outlines the key priorities to be addressed in the Food Plan, including the reprioritisation of food and agriculture higher up the national policy agenda. The National Food Plan should incorporate a series of appropriate and relevant targets that can be set to guide and measure progress, and to be a success, should be adequately resourced and include critical details on how the range of issues are going to be prioritised.
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