Food Australia magazine April-June 2022 edition. As LH has a subscription, you might need to use the Student Password button on the NCC site for access.
This 2007 report seeks to contribute some preliminary research to encourage Australian dialogue on the growing issues of sustainability within our food systems. Data was collected to establish food miles and greenhouse gas emissions estimates for a typical food basket in Victoria.
In 2013 it was estimated that food waste cost Australian households more than $8 billion each year. A departmental report released in 2011 estimated that Australians continued to generate 361 kilograms of food waste annually per person. This government resources shows some of the ways this is being tackled. Department of Environment and Energy, 2016
What do you think of when you read the phrase “food miles”? Whatever you think of “food miles” there is little doubt the shine on the environment lobby’s campaign is beginning to fade. Food Investigators,
A different take on Food Miles, author Tony Battaglene, of the Winemaker's Federation focuses on the issues related with Australian wine industry in terms of how consumer concerns about Food Miles will impact international trade of Australian wine as an export. Wine & Viticulture Journal, 2016
The Conversation article on the ability of science to address the challenges of food production as climate change increases written in collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, The Conversation, 2014
Foodprint Melbourne is a collborative research project between the University of Melbourne, The City of Melbourne and Sustain, to investigate what grows in Melbourne’s city fringe foodbowl, the vulnerabilities in the city’s food supply and the importance of Melbourne’s foodbowl for a more resilient and sustainable food future for the city.
The Australian honeybee industry is concerned pests will get past Australia's border surveillance, saying the situation is like a game of soccer without a goalie. ABC News, 2016
Research shows changing and unpredictable weather conditions are altering the seasons and bringing change to biomes. For example, in Sudan droughts and extreme floods are becoming more common and farmers have to cope with crop losses, and adapt to these changes where they can -- this means different things in the Global North compared to the Global South. Oxfam Australia
The Ark of Taste is an international project that counts over 3000 products worldwide that are at risk of becoming extinct due to industrial agriculture, the standardisation and large-scale distribution of global food markets, and environmental issues.
Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in.
Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in.
How Australia will contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development target. Includes background information and statistics about food waste and its stakeholders, with sections for policy support, business improvements, market development and behavioural change. Published November 2017
History of World Agriculture: A history of world agriculture : from the neolithic age to the current crisis (ebook) by