Next Steps for #VicFoodSystemsConsensus - 1. Create policy briefs for govt 2. Get State govt to take coordination responsibility. 3. Fund food policy officers in all local govt. 4. Funding for community #FoodSystems. 5. Great role for uni students in research.
6. Local govt to drive community #FoodSystems strategies through amending Public health & wellbeing Act 7. Resource local govt to do this work 8. Leverage #ClimateEmergency and #sustainability 9. Build on existing work 10. Creat a participatory democracy & communities of practice
11. Public sector healthy food procurement/ retail - changing language around #foodwaste 12. Costs of #foodwaste vs cost of procurement 13. Data metrics 14. Bringing more ppl into agriculture 15. Nutrition & #foodliteracy 16. Food culture & time to prepare healthy food
17. Need to have unified voice - egs around peak bodies in other areas - need very clear message & unified in delivering that 18. Incentives for industry 19. Coordination across govt 20. Align health & food to #climatechange & develop triple bottom line 4 #sustainablefoodsystems
21. Right to Food - get involved politically 22. Conscious of shared language 23. Interest in learning from history of food policy from the 1980s 24. Digestible points for the 2022 State govt election 25. Planning reforms - new developments
26. Local food infrastructure - local food hubs / social enterprise 27. Needs to be identity/ connection / building community. 28. Need coordination/ partnerships with govt / philanthropy for funding 29. Procurement policy can help advance these agendas - infrastructure helps
30. Continue w a working group! 31. Food systems monitoring - clear framework building on existing work and getting a baseline / identifying gaps / embed in existing process eg MPHWPs. 32. Many actors need to be involved
Great job everyone brainstorming to advance the agenda of #VicFoodSystemsConsensus

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