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Here's how students and the elderly are sharing supermarket leftovers to fight isolation

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Food halls are being used to bring those socially isolated and food insecure together. Image: Unsplash/nrd

Marsha Smith
Visiting Fellow in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
David Bek
Reader in Sustainable Economies, , Coventry University
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