Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance’s Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009…

It was a seminar on the security and sustainability of Sydney’s food supply, but bad Powerpoints and lacklustre presentation failed to engage an informed audience and distracted some of those there…

Adelaide’s Plains To Plate Food Convergence signals that food has arrived as a social, community and sustainability issue…

AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food…

Pat Rayner reports: Slow Foods founder, Carlo Petrini’s inspiring message, at the international level, was that of Sydney Food Fairness Alliance at the metropolitan level and the Blue Mountains Sustainable Food Group, or your local permaculture group, at the community level…

At Carrs Park, participatory planning and construction, cooperation between citizens and council and collaboration are creating a new community garden and outdoor classroom on a deserted bowling green…

The 2007 Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network’s annual conference filled Collingwood Town Hall with people and great ideas…