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Author: Malaika Mathew Chawla

Malaika Mathew Chawla currently works as a Produce Packer with the Melbourne Food Hub. She is deeply passionate about biodiversity conservation, environmental justice, and local food systems. She has recently graduated with a degree in Tropical Biology and Conservation. She hopes that her work and her writing will highlight how our food problems and our environment problems are deeply-interconnected issues. She spends her free time staring at gum trees and drawing them. She also likes to read and learn about Australia’s indigenous history.
The benefits of eating “ugly produce”
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The benefits of eating “ugly produce”

ByMalaika Mathew Chawla May 21, 2021January 14, 2025

Firstly, there is no such thing as ‘ugly’ food. There’s only food that does not rise to our manufactured standards of what vegetables or fruit should look like. Because of the food we see in the shops, most of us almost believe that our food is isolated from the natural world and doesn’t interact with…

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Why are India’s farmers protesting?
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Why are India’s farmers protesting?

ByMalaika Mathew Chawla April 30, 2021July 15, 2024

The largest ongoing protest in the history of humanity, occurring amid a global health emergency, revolves around small-scale agriculture, farmer rights and democracy in India.

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Sustain acknowledges that we work on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nations. We respectfully acknowledge the custodianship of the Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Elders, recognising that they and their Ancestors stewarded these lands and their diverse creatures sustainably for tens of thousands of years. We respectfully acknowledge that sovereignty over these lands was never ceded, and that the processes of historical truth-telling and a duly negotiated treaty are essential for justice for First Nations peoples. The path to a better food system for all must begin with the principles of care, respect, justice, healing, and regeneration. In unity with the ongoing journey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples journey toward self-determination and sovereignty, Sustain directs 10% of its membership fees to Pay the Rent, a Victorian Aboriginal-led initiative that supports the self-determination of First Nations people.

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    • Victorian Food Security Consensus Statement
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