We Can’t Eat Concrete

We Can’t Eat Concrete

Sustain calls for strong government action as Victoria builds the equivalent of Melbourne’s CBD over productive farmland every year Melbourne’s ‘foodbowl’ is essential to Victoria’s food security, and its many greengrocers and municipal markets are critical to its public health infrastructure. Yet both are under threat by relentless urban expansion and the unconstrained market power…

Inquiry into Food Security in Victoria

Inquiry into Food Security in Victoria

“A major step towards dignified food fecurity for all, but more needs to be done” On Thursday 14th November 2024, the Legal and Social Issues Committee (LSC) of the Victorian Legislative Council released Food Security in Victoria – a report exploring the drivers, impacts and solutions for food security. Legislating a right to food, adopting a systems approach…

Urgent Action To Tackle Food Poverty In Victoria

Urgent Action To Tackle Food Poverty In Victoria

“My family has a farming background, and I would love to support [our farmers]. I hate giving my money to organizations that I know collect mass profits while consumers, their employees and producers all live off the bare minimum.” 176 organisations and individuals have sent strong messages about urgent measures needed to tackle the growing…

Sustain submission to the Environment & Planning Committee Inquiry

Sustain submission to the Environment & Planning Committee Inquiry

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…

Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Security – Sustain Briefing Note

Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Security – Sustain Briefing Note

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…

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices

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…

Why we’re calling for a $500 million edible garden fund

Why we’re calling for a $500 million edible garden fund

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…

We’ve created a NSW election scorecard to highlight what the major parties are doing to create a sustainble, equitable and healthy food system

We’ve created a NSW election scorecard to highlight what the major parties are doing to create a sustainble, equitable and healthy food system

Vote for Food – Scorecard of major party policies on food for the NSW Election The upcoming NSW election will be contested in the context of substantial cost of living rises, extreme weather and continued pandemic recovery. Sustain, Food Fairness Illawarra, Professor Karen Charlton from the University of Wollongong, Australia’s Right to Food Coalition, Community…

Sustain’s submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Security in Australia

Sustain’s submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Security in Australia

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…