Wyndham Council: A unique opportunity to analyse and future-plan food systems

Wyndham Council: A unique opportunity to analyse and future-plan food systems

Wyndham residents – an exciting new food journey is taking place in your region! Sustain: The Australian Food Network, in collaboration with Wyndham City, aims to create partnerships with local stakeholders by establishing the Wyndham Food Collective. If you are a farmer, seller, transporter, grower and everyone in between who features in the local food…

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…

Strengthening Food Systems Governance at the Local Level

Strengthening Food Systems Governance at the Local Level

This 2019-2022 collaboration with the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong created a database of food-related policies across all councils in Victoria and NSW. Through in-depth case study research with leading local governments and civil society organisations, it identified the opportunities and challenges for food system transformation at the local level. The extensive research…

Local government food system survey 2024

Local government food system survey 2024

Leadership, resources and commitment needed for local governments to engage substantially in food systems and food security Below are high-level findings and quotes from our survey of local governments (41 responses, March 2023).  Our Council currently does very little in this regard – as important as I think it is, this type of issue needs…