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
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…
The natural resources of peri-urban land – or rural landscapes adjoining cities – matter. Cities that protect their peri-urban areas are most likely to survive inevitable future crises. Climate change, political upheaval and increasing global demand for food will increase the risks from fuel supply interruptions, crop failures, unstable weather, economic instability, health crises and…
This article is republished with permission from Circles of Food. Please click here to view the original. Food Systems and the Role of Local Government In 2017 Sustain distributed the final Local Government Food Governance and Policy position paper to all 79 municipalities in Victoria. You can download the position paper here: FOOD SYSTEMS AND…
The Victorian Government has been conducting a public consultation on proposed reforms to the State Planning Framework regulating the conduct of livestock farming. The relevant consultation papers are available here. The proposed reforms have generated considerable controversy in the community, with a widely shared perception that they favour large-scale, intensive factory-farm operations at the expense…