Victorian Independent Food Systems Dialogue – Report
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Facilitating food security system change in regional Western Australia
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….
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Protecting our Sustainably Managed Farmland
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…
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Towards a Healthy, Regenerative and Equitable Food System in Victoria: A Consensus Statement
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…
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2022 Federal Election Scorecard
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.
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2022 Federal election – major parties policy positions on urban agriculture
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:
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We want to hear from the orgs creating a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system in Australia
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…
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Sustain’s submission to the draft version of the National Preventive Health Strategy
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…
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Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land: Submission in Response to the 2020 Consultation
A joint submission by Sustain, Plan-It Rural and the McLeod Family Foundation to the 2020 consultation for planning for Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land
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Victorian Strategic Agricultural Land consultation: Sustain’s Response
On 14th March 2019, the Victorian Government announced a public and stakeholder consultation to identify and protect what it termed ‘strategic agricultural land’, in order to ‘protect food production in the peri-urban and green wedge areas’. Sustain has delivered its response to this consultation, in which we raise a number of substantial concerns about the…
