Cost of Living in The Guardian
Sustain CEO Nick Rose was featured in this piece on how Australia’s can beat soaring inflation and cut everyday food expenses.

Sustain CEO Nick Rose was featured in this piece on how Australia’s can beat soaring inflation and cut everyday food expenses.

Sustain is a “think and do” network, specialising in designing and building sustainable and healthy food systems. We work with governments, councils, and community leaders to help map local food systems, and develop evidence-based and achievable policies and programs. We sow the seeds of change with events, policy work, practice & thought leadership, capacity building, and collective action. We give people, councils, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people and ecosystems.
In this piece, Sustain staff speak to how food systems are endlessly complex, encompassing everything from food production through to policies, processing, community access and food waste management. As a Bank Australia customer and community customer grant recipient Sustain is addressing these intricacies at multiple leverage points, all while helping us make fruitful use of…
Costa Georgiadis, Lou Ridsdale and Nick Rose had a chance to go beyond soundbites to cover the big picture food system crisis points and inspiring stories of local and personal action. This was a great example of how to use multiple perspectives to tie a food-system story together and the role of tangible examples (like Costa’s farm-school-refugee community…
“Grocery Price Fury”. That’s how The Project covered the cost-of-living crisis this election. They’re not wrong. In our like-for-like comparison of groceries from a supermarket and local Melbourne grocer Gasko’s, we payed $25 less at the locally-owned shop. In this segment the Project team fact check our findings and learn how the supermarkets use choice…
In his regular column, local food legend Costa Georgiadis shared his reflections as Sustain hits the nine year milestone.
What is in Australia’s new food security strategy and does it go far enough? In this ABC Sydney interview, Sustain ED Nick Rose discusses why we need a food security strategy, what it should include and how can we take a whole of systems approach from paddock to plate. Click here to listen to the…
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, poor diet has overtaken smoking and alcohol as the leading cause of early death and disease in Australia. So what’s going wrong with our current food system and what can be done to fix it? Dr Nick Rose is Executive Director of Sustain: The Australian Food Network and…