Policy - Reports & Submissions

Publications - Policy - Reports & Submissions

The report of the Victorian Food Supply Scenarios: Impacts on Availability of a Nutritious Diet project has been released.

This VEIL-led research project was funded by VicHealth and undertaken in partnership with the CSIRO, Deakin University and the Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development.

The purpose of this project was to develop and demonstrate a new methodology to link land and resource use with availability of a nutritionally adequate food supply for Victoria's population. To do so, it has built the capability of the CSIRO stocks and flows model as a platform for on-going 'what-if' investigation of Victorian and Australian food supply security.

The full report and a summary version are available for download here.

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Food sensitive planning and urban design (FSPUD) recognises that access to healthy, sustainable and equitable food is an essential part of achieving liveable communities.

VEIL and David Locke Associates were commissioned by the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Victorian Division) to develop a resource further articulating the idea of 'Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design' (first articulated by VEIL in 2008 as Food Sensitive Urban Design).

This new resource - Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design: A conceptual framework for achieving a sustainable and just food system - is intended to raise the awareness of planners, architects, urban designers, engineers, policy makers, community members and elected representatives of the need to integrate food considerations into urban land use and development. It outlines:

• key areas in planning legislation, policy and processes to realise this outcomes;
• how meeting people's food needs contributes to the broader objectives of planning and urban design, including: health and fairness; sustainability and resilience; livelihoods and opportunity; and community and amenity; and
  
• a challenge to professionals and the broader community to take on a stronger role in ensuring that healthy, sustainable and equitable food is available for all Australians into the future.

It is available for download here.

Publications - Policy - Reports & Submissions

Visions of possible futures; new trajectories for sustainable development.

Publications - Policy - Reports & Submissions

This report assesses Best Practice Food Distribution Systems that might contribute to achievement of significant environmental improvements (i.e. reductions in GHG emissions) and/or reduce vulnerabilities in food systems.

Leadership was identified in five categories:

·       Farmer and consumer led initiatives (e.g. farmers' markets; coops; online hubs etc);

·       Food retailers;

·       Food manufacturers and marketers;

·       Third party logistics providers; and

·       Local councils, State and Federal Governments.

38 different initiatives were studied and results were extracted for each category, regarding:

·       Drivers and motivations;

·       Innovative aspects and opportunities;

·       Obstacles and challenges; and

·       Lessons learned - applicability to future initiatives.

This report highlights a wide range of alternatives that can help to decrease GHG emissions, and potentially reduce vulnerability in food distribution systems. Rather than advocating for a unique approach to be used, this report shows that each player in the chain has potential to contribute to the development of sustainable and resilient food distribution systems, whether at a local, national or international level.

Similarly, there are opportunities for players in each category to learn from and develop ideas from the others. The opportunities for abatement, and the creation of more resilient and sustainable supply chains, are significant.

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This report is part of a larger food freight project, see also project description and Understanding Victoria's F&V Freight Movements.