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How Hawaii Squandered Its Food Security — And What It Will Take To Get It Back

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leaders, economists, farmers, food shoppers and community activists have long tried to solve.Researchers have found that an island needs to be growing — foods like rice, ulu, potatoes, wheat — in order to be self-sufficient if disaster strikes.“The systems in place, the policies themselves, limit the ability of a farmer to produce,” Faʻanunu said. “The policies themselves are meant to protect agricultural land, but they can be so restrictive that they make it really difficult for a farmer to just get something done.”More than food sovereignty, advocates claim Hawaii would reap many benefits from growing more food for local consumption: healthier diets, a deeper connection between nature and society, beautification of the lFierce community opposition to some proposed agricultural projects, , is another significant hurdle, Mathews said.On the Big Island, for example, when they learned that a dairy had used GMO corn to feed the cows.The dairy ultimately &nbsp;alleging that the owners violated the Clean Water Act after residents claimed to have found bacteria in brown water downstream from the facility.The dispute ultimately put the Big Island dairy out of business.On Kauai, a five-year effort to establish a dairy to reduce the state’s reliance on imported milk crashed and burned in part due to residents’ concerns over the possibility that the dairy could to south shore beaches and hotel pools.Environmental compliance and community pushback isn’t just a problem for dairy farmers, but for many kinds of large-scale agriculture projects in Hawaii, Mathews said.“I feel that as we become a more suburban and urban society, we’ve become more eco-hypocritical or eco-imperialistic,” Mathews said. “In other words, we don’t want noise, pesticides, pollution in our own backyard — but we don’t mind so much paying for food imported from other places.”During this election season, we hope that our coverage provides you with the information to make informed decisions on issues that you care deeply about.Whether it’s affordable housing, education or the environment, these issues depend on your vote, and&nbsp;our ability to report on them depends on your support.So, if you found value in our coverage,&nbsp;

leaders, economists, farmers, food shoppers and community activists have long tried to solve.Researchers have found that an island needs to be growing — foods like rice, ulu, potatoes, wheat — in order to be self-sufficient if disaster strikes.“The systems in place, the policies themselves, limit the ability of a farmer to produce,” Faʻanunu said. “The policies themselves are meant to protect agricultural land, but they can be so restrictive that they make it really difficult for a farmer to just get something done.”More than food sovereignty, advocates claim Hawaii would reap many benefits...

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