Brisbane Food City is the work of myself, Ellia Guy, Catherine Simpson and Nick Stein who, together with a larger stakeholder team, submitted an application to the global Food System Vision Prize, spearheaded by The Rockefeller Foundation. The prize is $US200,000 and the 10 finalists will be announced in just under six weeks, on the 3-7 August. Our vision sees a
Please bear with me for a moment. I’m going to throw two questions at you and I want you to take some time to think through them, if only for a few seconds. The first question is, do you think you eat healthy? It’s a broad question I know. And the way you answer it
There have been many calls to action in the past few months for integrated food policy. Harvard has just released a Blueprint for National Food Strategy, which provides a plan for action for creating a national food strategy in the US. The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems are undertaking a three
Taste the feeling. You can visualise it can’t you? That iconic bottle of fizz. It provides so much more than just an ability to quench ones thirst. It provides happiness, joy, sexiness…. but wait? Does it really? The psychology applied to marketing soft drink is fascinating and mind blowing. The manufacturers sell us a certain