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At the scale of the entire globe it can be calculated that we produce enough food to feed nine billion people. Mathematically, this is possibly right. However, many (weak, poor) groups still do not have access to food. This paper reports a way to support these groups to gain access to healthy food.
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Roggema, R. (2017). Development of the FoodRoof. In: Roggema, R. (eds) Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56739-6_7
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