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
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Emma-Kate Rose: Transforming people?s attitudes through food
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.? – R. Buckminster Fuller Emma-Kate Rose is well versed in advocating for change as part of Australia?s fair food movement. She has worked in this space for many years and has witnessed change
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Food policy
Serving up sustainability on a plate
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
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Farming
Connecting the dots on a joined up food policy
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