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RETURNING TO O U R RO OTS In the third part of VIPY’s series on young entrepreneurs, a day with Nea Talbot from Full Belly Farm shows what it means to be an “agripreneur.” BY A N I KA M . C H R I STO P H E R P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y E L K E TA L B O T
TODAY, FARMERS produce enough food to feed every single person on this planet, yet millions of people worldwide continue to go hungry. The British Virgin Islands faces its own threat to food security due to its increasing population and small land area. The ongoing climate crisis and Covid-19 outbreaks have made the challenge more acute. “Small farmers feed the world. The Virgin Islands is ideally situated to support many small farmers practising regenerative agriculture,” said Nea Talbot, owner and lead farmer of
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