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…
There’s something in the wind. Recent years have seen a number of state and national inquiries into food, food systems and food security, and other opportunities such as informing the ACT’s Capital Food and Fibre Strategy. We now have the opportunity to contribute to a national Inquiry into Food Security in Australia. Following a referral…
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We know that regional and remote communities can experience disruptions to healthy food availability, higher food costs, and lower food quality, as compared to metropolitan residents. We also know there is often duplication of short-term food-related projects. Yet, we still don’t have a good understanding of how initiatives addressing these challenges function as a system….
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.
We asked the three major political parties in Australia, asking them to state their parties’ platforms and policy commitments on key issues of concern to Sustain and our members:
We are going to state the purpose of this article up front. If you are part of a non-government, civil society organisation or initiative that is working for a better food future for our country, then we would love to hear about what you are doing, how you do it, and why. You can tell…
Dietary-related ill-health and mental illness cost Australia around $200 bn every year. As we’ve said in the National Pandemic Gardening Survey report, for a fraction of this cost we could improve access to edible gardens and urban food production and vastly impact the state of preventative health. The Department of Health is currently seeking the…