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The Community Food Movement: The social precursors

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT — It is to earlier social movements that we look for the origins of today’s community food movement.

The Community Food Movement: An alternative — the community food system

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT: Permaculture co-inventor, David Holmgren said that for most people the supermarket is their larder. Woolworths and Coles might be where most Australians buy their food, however an alternative, parallel food system is in gestation. It was here that the community food movement was born…

The Community Food Movement: What is the food system?

THE COMMUNITY FOOD MOVEMENT… A social movement around food is emerging in Australia, and what better place to start understanding it than a look at our food supply chain…

Local government reform necessary to urban agriculture’s future

It is time for reform of local government’s handling of community food initiatives on public land. It is time, too, to reform councils’ handling of complaints about those enterprises…

In 2025, what will your kids be doing for a living?

This is a story inspired by the article: The iEverything and the Redistribution Imperative: http://robertreich.org/post/113801138315 The link to the article was circulated on social media by farmer and fair food advocate, Michael Croft. THIS IS another article in a growing list of articles questioning our automated and robotised future. The author raises the idea of […]

Submission: Victorian Greens Animal Policy Review 2015

Following is a submission to the Victorian Greens Animals policy review as invited by email circulated in February 2015.

The community gardens network: one of the fair food movement’s early organisations

Community gardeners — they're a community of practice long a part of the fair food movement in Australia…

Needed: Simple, focused, tangible goals

The community food movement: a series about the emerging social movement around food… THE FAIR FOOD MOVEMENT is diverse and fractured. It is made up of small organisations each pursuing their own goals that in some cases are too lofty for poorly-resourced groups to achieve, while in other cases those organisations are going about achieving them. […]

Farms — for agriculture or tourists?

SOMETIMES, you stumble on an interesting story by accident. A story that has some resonance with your own experience. A story that makes you think. That happened this morning when I was looking at the timeline of a Facebook link of mine, Anaïs Gschwind. Anaïs linked to a story on a US website, Modern Farmer. […]

New software promises decentralised solution to buying food

Down Melbourne way they’re cooking up something interesting, innovative and digital when it comes to food... something that will create connections between food producers and the people who buy what they grow...

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