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A Local Issue: Sustainable Farming and Health

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith

A US University is to study if people and their communities would be be healthier if they still got food from local farms?

The research team, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system.

The team will establish a Gillings Innovation Laboratory (GIL) through the UNC School of Public Health. The project will be the eighth laboratory established through a generous gift to the School by Dennis and Joan Gillings.

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