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Sustain Australia
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Sustain is Australia's meta food network, connecting the country's growing #sustainablefoodsystems movement. #UrbanAgricultureMonth #UrbanAgricultureForum
Jun 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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
Mar 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
At the #UrbanAgForum2021 we are thrilled to feature leaders from the #KoreanCityFarmers and @Seoul_gov who have championed a massive expansion of #urbanagriculture in less than a decade - and have plans to ramp it up even further.

uaf.org.au/program/urban-… "According to the city government's data, the number of urban farmers in Seoul is estimated at 647,000 as of 2019, compared with 45,000 in 2011, while the amount of farming space has increased nearly seven times since 2011 from 29ha to 202ha."

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Oct 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
We are calling for a $500m national #EdibleGardening fund as a necessary and urgent investment in public and community #health to be co-financed by Federal, State and Territory governments.

We’re in a national emergency, and we must respond accordingly. #urbanagriculture Dietary-related ill-health and mental illness cost Australia around $200 bn every year.

With COVID-19 and the climate emergency, these costs will rise and more will experience #hunger and #foodinsecurity. In a country as wealthy as #Australia, there is no excuse for this.
Jul 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
#COVID19 has opened a window for transformative change in #foodystems:
"COVID has provided an opportunity for socio-economic transition. We should not be looking to 'go back to normal' but taking this opportunity to restart-to decide on and put into place ways we can improve... ...the #sustainability of our lifestyle, including but not limited to, reducing #greenhouse #emissions, ways to adapt to the inevitability of #climatechange and ways to transform our #economy from #growth, #consumerism and reliance on overseas products to an economy...
Jun 28, 2020 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
Great comment on our #PandemicGardening survey "#Urbanagriculture has always been practised in #Australian cities...our 'allotments' were our backyards. As Andrea Gaynor has so beautifully documented in Harvest of the Suburbs, [our] backyards produced large amounts of food... ...with urban consolidation, millions of Australians no longer have large yards in which to grow food. We need to learn how to get productive growing space into cities-in public spaces, on the privately owned common property in strata schemes, on balconies, on verges, & on roofs.