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Sep 2022
23m 43s

Cooperation: the solution to a food cris...

Bbc Radio 4
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The co-op that's saving land, a food culture and villages at risk of being abandoned. In Benevento, Italy, Lentamente is also giving former convicts a future through farms and food.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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