Fair Food Futures

In the final episode of this podcast series, we reflect on the learnings gathered from our conversations with food systems experts and leaders of civic food networks, and ask how policy can help scale up fairer food systems in Australia. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Nora McKeon, professor at the Rome Tre University, who has worked extensively at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation on food systems governance and rural peoples’ movements; Maggie Carter, Research Analyst at t...

This time, our food justice conversations welcome Dr Hope Foley from Growing Forward, and Andrew Ward from Regen Farmers Mutual, who share their ideas about understanding food and land as “commons”. Hope explains Growing Forward’s approach to land sovereignty and common ownership, which reclaims unused public land to grow food to feed local communities, including refugees, all with the support of First Nations Elders. From the perspective of Regen Farmers Mutual, Andrew talks about the...

In this episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast we begin our journey alongside leaders of civic food networks in Australia, learning from them how they uphold intersectional solidarity and care practices in their work. This episode brings together three examples of how the “Long Table” scenario identified by the Fair Food Futures project can look like in practice. Francis Nona and Dr Preetha Thomas, from the UQ Reconciliation Garden, explain how the garden aims to promote the voices of...

In this introductory episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast, Dr Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland; and landscape architect, TV presenter, and gardening superstar Costa Georgiadis, engage in a conversation about the diversity of grassroots fair food initiatives in Australia. Imagining he had a 'magic wand', Costa describes his ideal 'fair food future', and talks with Kiah about how civic food initiatives can be scaled-up to transform the wide...