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Public areas in cities should be turned into "edible spaces" which are used for growing food, a leading food policy expert urged today.

Professor Tim Lang, of the Centre for Food Policy at City University, London, called for fruit trees to be planted beside town roads and blackberry bushes to be grown in parks.

And he said areas of inner city estates and "green roofs" should be turned over to food production.

He said "fruit should be everywhere" as part of a bid to increase food grown in the UK's cities and the amount of fruit eaten by the British public.
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Prof Lang, who coined the term "food miles" and who has recently taken over as president of organic gardening charity Garden Organic, said:
"One of my dreams for the coming period is to try and inject a view that public space can grow food.

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