Food Systems and Food Security COVID-19 Working Group

The Working Group provides a mechanism to share, coordinate and collaborate for maximum impact.

Healthy and sustainable food systems

Growing for Good – The Community Grocer

VicHealth and The Community Grocer have joined forces to give people facing disadvantage greater access to high-quality, affordable fruit and vegetables in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

New food security funding a boost for Victorians’ health

VicHealth welcomes the Victorian Government’s new $5 million Community Food Relief Fund, providing one-off grants of up to $75,000 to support local community organisations supplying food to Victorians in need during the coronavirus pandemic.

The impacts of localised food supply 2010 update - Trevor Budge

The impacts of localised food supply: what is the evidence? Mr Trevor Budge, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University.

Trevor Budge: The Impacts of a Localised Food Supply

Determining the health, social and economic impacts of a localised food supply is one of VicHealth's research priorities.

Health groups merge to form Food Alliance

The Food Alliance – a not-for-profit group that brings people and organisations together to tackle the big issues in our food system from paddock to plate – will be launched on Thursday 21 November

Food for All: Food Insecurity Community Demonstration Projects

Case studies of the food insecurity community demonstration projects from Maribyrnong City Council and North Yarra Community Health.

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. This report makes recommendations towards a food supply system framework that will deliver healthy food in a sustainable way.

Mapping Melbourne for land capability: A preliminary evaluation

This report, prepared for VicHealth by the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab, aims to improve understanding of land capability for agriculture through mapping arable land.

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.

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.