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Welcome to the Food Program, that place for Hungry Minds.

And today I bring you that once a year moment, where you have the opportunity to change lives

by nominating the people you know who are changing Britain for the better through good food and drink.

Creating communities, creating jobs, transforming economies.

I'm talking about the launch of the BBC Food and

Farming Awards 2022. How well-deserved this award is for these two young women who've

actually made it happen on the ground. This is a matter of food

justice. We need to elevate farmers, we need to elevate food and because it can also

be part of the solution to many of our challenges that we have. What it demonstrates, you know, these awards and

seeing these people at work is that fundamental connection that food has to

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