Food for All 2005-10 program evaluation

The final report of the five-year VicHealth project highlights the significant gains in awareness of food security at local government levels and the strategies that helped reduce some barriers, and identifies the changes needed to reduce others.

Food For All - Resources for Local Governments

The ten micro-movies and information sheets are designed to assist local government in advancing a food security agenda. They describe ten broad categories of action to take to assist residents, especially those vulnerable to food security

Victorian Food Supply Scenarios

This report, from a VicHealth-funded study that created and projected three possible food supply scenarios to 2060, builds an evidence base for examining how cumulative changes in food systems can impact on the food that ends up on our tables.

Food-sensitive planning and urban design

This resource looks at how to create places that make it easy for people to access healthy and sustainable food in urban environments.

Healthy Club Canteens

VicHealth partnered with The Big Picture Strategic Services to undertake the Healthy Club Canteens project. This pilot program was established to identify ways in which community sporting clubs can provide a range of healthy food options in their canteens or food outlets.

Scoping a Food Policy Coalition

In October 2008, VicHealth engaged the Human Rights and Bioethics Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University to undertake a scoping exercise for the establishment of a food policy coalition.

Impacts of a localised food supply: What is the evidence?

This project seeks to document and evaluate to what extent localised food suppliers deliver environmental, social and economic gains and benefits.

Fruit and vegetable consumption and waste in Australia

What we eat not only affects our health, but also has major environmental, ethical and economic implications. We need to rethink what we are eating, how it is produced, distributed, processed, sold, prepared and disposed of. This report reveals makes recommendations towards a food supply system framework that will deliver healthy food in a sustainable way.

Food for All forum: Making a Difference 2010

The theme of this year’s Food for All Forum was “Food for All: Making a Difference”, and focused on the practical ways to improve access to healthy food. Held in June, councillors, researchers, practitioners, planners, policy makers and food producers, as well as other interested members of the community, shared their ideas and discussed the practical and sustainable ways that councils have implemented Food for All.

Food for All forum: Securing the Future 2009

The Securing the Future forum featured Food for All project workshops, presentations from researchers and discussion on the successes and challenges in securing improved access to food for healthy eating. Held at the Swan Hill Performing Arts & Conference Centre on Monday 13 July 2009.