22: Rethinking Rural Food Security with Rob Rainer
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Rethinking Rural Food Security with Rob Rainer
In this episode of The Future Herd, Jesse Hirsh speaks with Rob Rainer about food insecurity from a rural perspective. Rob brings a rare combination of experience: he is the executive director of The Table Community Food Centre in Perth, Ontario, and the reeve of Tay Valley Township. That gives him a view of food insecurity that is both deeply local and structurally political.
The conversation explores why rural food insecurity is often harder to see than urban poverty, even when the need is just as urgent. Food…
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