The phrase "a homegrown problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an issue that originates from within a particular group, organization, or community, rather than being imported or influenced by external factors.
Example: "The company is facing a homegrown problem with employee morale that needs to be addressed immediately."
Alternatives: "an internal issue" or "a local challenge".
Hepatitis C is more of a homegrown problem.
However, inside China it feels as though sluggish demand from the eurozone, rather than a homegrown problem, is to blame for the deterioration in the economic weather.
In the past he has argued that the insurgency in Afghanistan is a homegrown problem and stems from dissatisfaction with the Afghan government.
In the government's eyes, there is a stark difference between a homegrown problem like the one in Jiangxi and a case like Mr. Chen's, in which the government perceives foreign meddling.
Experts believe radicalization has largely been a homegrown problem in Canada and that terrorist acts are rarely ever carried out by refugees.
The hard reality is that homelessness is a homegrown problem, and putting a dent in it is a long, slow, expensive process — and everyone in Orange County needs to realize that.
He broke it down into three segments: a large homegrown problem of potentially violent extremists in the UK – most of them British – about 3,000 in number; members of Daesh (Islamic State) in the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq trying to incite terror plots against the UK; and Daesh trying to spread its "toxic ideology" and promote terrorism online.
Similarly, employment rolls remain bloated — another homegrown problem and a relic of Soviet times, when full employment was a government tenet.
Listening to the about 11-minute video released by the TTP thug Umar Mansoor claiming the Bacha Khan University attack, it becomes abundantly clear that jihadist terror is Pakistan's homegrown problem and a self-inflicted wound.
Fears that the attack was jihadi-inspired have also been raised by an increase in incidents in Jordan, which has a homegrown extremism problem.
Identified the size of the homegrown problem: there are about 3,000 "violent Islamic extremists in the UK, mostly British".
