One hundred and fifty passionate and experienced leaders from across Victoria and interstate met at the Angliss Conference Centre in Naarm / Melbourne on 22nd May 2026 for a deep dive into action being taken across Victoria to tackle food insecurity. Sustain convened this Forum with our Victorian partners both to showcase and celebrate the…
Understanding food insecurity in Australia Australia has experienced chronic and rising food insecurity since the early 1990s, when the first Foodbank opened in NSW. Rates of food insecurity rose sharply in the wake of the post-COVID inflation-driven cost of living crisis, with Foodbank Australia’s 2025 Hunger Report indicating that 1 in 3 Australians were experiencing…
Summary of recommendations Download the full submission here. Recommendation 1 Reverse the decision to absorb VicHealth into the Department of Health; keep VicHealth independent and increase its funding. Recommendation 2 Develop and fund an integrated food system and food security strategy for Victoria with a range of associated elements and measures. Recommendation 3 Develop a Food Systems…
Why it’s crucial to invest in the food system In 2024, researchers at Oxford University and London School of Economics found that transforming the food system to one that is healthier, equitable, and sustainable would create $USD10 trillion in benefits per year, requiring less than 5% of that figure in investment (Food Systems Economic Commission, 2024). …
The WA Regenerative Food Systems Conference brought together over 200 regenerative farmers from across Australia and internationally, celebrating and recognising the tremendous successes and achievements by farmers in restoring life and fertility to their soils.
A food system expert says the Victorian Government’s “lukewarm” support for action on the State’s cost-of living and food security crises, falls far short. On Thursday 31 July 2025, the Victorian government delivered its responses to two parliamentary inquiries held in 2024 – Food Security in Victoria (released by the Legal and Social Issues Committee…
Guidance notes and resources for Victorian organisations and individuals wishing to make submissions to the food security inquiry taking place in 2024 in the Legal and Social Issues Committee
Sustain calls for the Victorian government to ‘govern the food system as a system’ to tackle critical challenges In its submission to the Environment and Planning Committee’s Inquiry into Securing Victoria’s Food Supply, Sustain has called on the Victorian government to take a number of key actions to tackle the serious issues facing our food…
Your Urgent Support Needed! The current humanitarian crisis in Gaza is indescribable with an almost complete destruction of infrastructure, hospitals, schools, homes, buildings, agriculture, and heritage farms, and the total loss of clean water, sewerage, transport, and electricity infrastructure. The decimation of the health system leaves health and emergency personnel well beyond their limit and…
Here we are sharing first-hand perspectives of members of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum who have lived through the horrific, genocidal violence in Gaza over the past seven months, yet still manage to grow and produce food for their families and communities. 29 February 2024 I amZainab Abid, the coordinator for the pioneer forum of…