Foreigners helping to feed us (6)
I believe the answer is:
swedes
'foreigners' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'helping to feed us' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'us' could be 'we' and 'we' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for swedes that I've seen before include "Root vegetables" , "Turnips for Scandinavians" , "Europeans and turnips" , "Turnips from Scandinavia?" .)