Sustain: the Australian Food Network Sustain: the Australian Food Network

Australia > National / Multi-state > Metro and Regional

Field of Interest

  • Community and economic development
  • Education/training and employment

Target Population

  • General population
  • People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability

Organisation Summary

Sustain’s vision is a thriving food system that nourishes all people in Australia while caring for the life systems on which we depend. Our mission is to make this a reality by designing and building food systems that foster ecological health and human wellbeing.

Currently the Australian food system is generating multiple harms. These include:
– the growing burden of chronic, dietary-related disease
– greenhouse emissions and environmental harms caused by industrial agriculture and excessive food waste
– food insecurity impacting a third of Australian households

Put simply, the food system is failing us and major change is needed. As Australia’s leading food systems field-building intermediary, championing a bold agenda for food system transformation, we are best-placed to lead this work.

Our current priorities are:
– growing the Australian Food Network, the digital home for Australia’s food system change-makers
– leading a national campaign to ensure that the Federal government prioritises human and ecological wellbeing in the National Food Security Strategy
– working with VicHealth and the 55 organisations that form part of Local Partnerships for Food First

Evidence of our impact includes:
– shaping more than 20 local food strategies, networks and place-based research
– highly influential in two Victorian parliamentary inquiries into food security (2024)
– providing transformative hands-on learning experiences for 40 young people from diverse backgrounds through our Food Justice internships

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Level 6, 126 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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