Daily headlines reportage on the cost-of-living crisis, rising food insecurity, climate change fallout affecting fresh food production and transportation, are inescapable. They reflect the sign of the times, and what is to come. It’s very timely that the Victorian parliament is conducting two Inquiries into food security in 2024: On Tuesday 9th April we were delighted…
Sustain: The Australian Food Network works for the transition to a food system that supports flourishing communities, individuals, and ecosystems. We give people, councils, governments, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people, and ecosystems. Through this work, we have explored the role that major supermarket…
Following the January 2024 announcement by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressing the escalating cost of living and concerns over supermarket pricing, Churchill Fellow and Sustain Executive Director Dr Nick Rose is advocating for a comprehensive approach that includes increased support for community gardens and urban farms as a sustainable solution. Nick has called for a…
On 26 October 2022, the House Standing Committee on Agriculture commenced an inquiry into food security in Australia. The Committee invited interested persons and organisations to make a submission addressing the terms of reference by Friday, 9 December 2022. Sustain made a submission to this inquiry; if you would like to read it, we have made…
Our Canberra Urban Agriculture Forum happened on December 7th, 2022, Sustain’s wrap-up event for National Urban Agriculture Month, held during November. 45 practitioners, ACT government staff and organisational leaders gathered into the cosy meeting room in Griffith for this historic event. It was standing room only during the first session, with passionate presentations from Churchill…
A brief summary of the first Sydney Urban Agriculture Forum, part of Urban Agriculture Month
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For the past 12 months, Sustain has been working with Trust for Nature, Ethical Fields, Young Farmers Connect and Cassinia Environmental on a collaborative project to develop models to tackle three big food system issues. First, how do we protect our remaining farmland, especially in the peri-urban context close to our major cities? This is…
Click here to read the Consensus Statement here. Shortly after the first lockdown of 2020 commenced, VicHealth convened a Food Security and Food Systems Working Group, with diverse representation from local and state government, community food organisations, academia, philanthropy and the large foodbanks. We all remember the unprecedented social and economic impacts of the public…
Sustain reviewed the policies of the major national political parties and analysed how these would help to realise the potential of regenerative urban agriculture and edible gardening.