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

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-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.

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.

Food for All: How local government is improving access to nutritious food

The eight councils funded for three years through Food for All are offering practical and sustainable ways to help residents living in disadvantaged areas regularly access a variety of nutritious foods.

Creating a healthier food system

VicHealth's vision for a healthier food system illustrated in series of 5 postcards, each identifying a differnent aspect of VicHealth's vision of a healthier and more sustainable food system.

Food for All: Lessons from two community demonstration projects

A publication detailing the strategies used to address food insecurity in the City of Maribyrnong and the City of Yarra.