Banyule City Council Policy Snapshot Background and Overview Throughout all Banyule Council documents relating to food security, urban agriculture, urban food systems and food sovereignty is a deep concern for the long-term health of the environment and the people within it. Particularly in relation to Banyule’s City Plan’s ‘Planet, People…
City of Yarra Council Urban Agriculture Policy Snapshot The City of Yarra is regarded as a leader both in Victoria and nationally in enacting policies and strategies that specifically address sustainability and global environmental change. With its long history of food growing, urban agriculture in particular has been a priority…
City of Darebin Council Urban Agriculture Overview The City of Darebin is one of the leading local governments in Melbourne and nationally in the field of urban agriculture and urban food production. Background and Overview Although a relatively new area of policy work for the Council, the Darebin community has…
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…
Perth, 12th April, and Fremantle, 13th April 2016 Tuesday 12th April saw Nick Rose fly from Albany to Perth, where he met with Charlie Thorn, Director of Research and Development at Curtin University, and Professor Greg Morrison, of the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute. Established in 2008, CUSP forms part…
Albany and the Great Southern, Monday 11th April, 2016 At the invitation of Evelyn Lee and Libby Johnson of Community Food Events and CLEAN (Communities Linking Environment, Agriculture and Nutrition), Nick Rose co-facilitated co-facilitate a highly participatory food systems and food policy workshop in Albany on Monday 11th April, 2016. A…
Sustain ED Nick Rose flew to Perth on Thursday 7th April for an intensive week of presentations, meetings and discussions on the exciting opportunities provided by the momentous shift towards food systems that work for all. Nick played a key role in four events in three locations, separated by hundreds…
Forging a new model that extends agricultural extension to whole-of-community value The ‘Democratising Food Systems’ workshop held in October 2015 identified agribusiness extension officers within local government as a crucial role to help producers and food business operators navigate complex planning and regulatory frameworks. For the past four months, Sally…
On the 3rd March, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council launched a new trademark, Mornington Peninsula Produce. As Mornington Peninsula residents, and its many visitors already know, the Shire is renowned throughout Victoria and beyond for the quality of its foods and wines: “Everything from avocados to artichokes, broccoli to beetroot, herbs…
