Urban Agriculture Forum: From Resilience to Liveability Melbourne, Australia 23-24 February 2018 Call for Papers Abstracts due: December 20, 2017 Registration deadline for presenters: 25 January, 2018 Climate change. Health and wellbeing. Connected and flourishing communities. Sustainability. Resilience. Justice. Food systems are at the centre of…
VISION [This] is a flourishing place to co-create and connect to a local food system. This is secure, sustainable, healthy and fair. [This place] will reflect and celebrate intercultural diversity, where all are welcome and included for generations to come. OBJECTIVES 1. To inspire and break new ground in the collaborative stewardship of a transformative…
About the Directory Sustain has created a web-based tool in the form of an Australian Directory of people, organisations, projects, knowledge (research and policies), infrastructure (e.g. abattoirs, community gardens, food co-operatives), events and other resources related to food systems. To visit and search the Directory, and to create a profile for…
“A $100 increase in per capita direct farm sales is associated with 0.80% lower obesity rate and a 1.2% lower diabetes rate.”1 “The density of farmers’ markets is also important. An additional farmers’ market per 1,000 people is associated with a 0.78% lower diabetes rate.”2 “Locals should be able to…
On 8-9 August 2016, Sustain coordinated the inaugural Community Food Hubs Conference in Bendigo with Dr Jen Alden of Growing Change. Over 170 people attended two full days at the Capital Theatre in Bendigo, with a delicious locally-catered dinner on Monday 8th August, featuring Castlemaine social enterprise Growing Abundance, and…
Explore the role urban agriculture and community empowerment play in securing food justice, by providing access to “Good Food For All”. Poverty and food insecurity are on the rise in Victoria. Proposed cuts in welfare benefits in the Federal budget will push thousands more of the most vulnerable members…
From August 8-18, Sustain facilitated Australia’s first national community food hubs speaking tour. This tour encompassed 13 separate events in every state and territory bar SA and the NT.
Richard Lange, Director at Sustain: The Australian Food Network For all dairy farmers, the 2016 crash in milk prices is far worse than a market correction. It strikes at the heart of dairy farming and undermines the basis of farmer co-operatives. There is rhythm to milking cows twice a day. It needs…
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 Role of Local Government The position paper was presented by Associate Professor…
On Wednesday 23rd March Sustain ED Nick Rose travelled to Northern Rivers NSW, at the invitation of Dr Richard Hil, co-founder of the Mullumbimby-based Ngara Institute , to speak at a ‘Politics in the Pub’ event on the need for a fairer and more democratic food system. Nick took the opportunity to…
