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Fair Food Futures

The Fair Food Futures podcast explores the stories and visions for change put forth by community food networks in Australia as they seek to progress transformations towards sustainable food futures, and identifies the strategies, challenges and opportunities for making civil society’s visions for fair food futures come to life. Our main questions were: what does it mean to do ‘food justice’ in Australia? What does your fair food future look like, and how do we get there? With these questions in mind, we listened to stories from leaders of grassroots food organisations, community workers, farmers, First Nations communities, activists, consumers, academics and global policy makers. By bringing these voices together, the Fair Food Futures podcast aims to create a space for dialogue and alliance building between members of civic food networks in Australia, and contribute to ongoing conversations about the opportunities and challenges for policy change. Fair Food Futures is based on research conducted at The University of Queensland and funded by the Australian Research Council, in collaboration with civic food networks in Australia. The Fair Food Futures Podcast is produced and facilitated by Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, and Joanna Horton, from the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. It was made possible thanks to the support of the Future Earth's Pathways Communication Grants Program. Recorded at VMP Studio by Liam Polmear & Ian Chapman. Illustrations by Brenna Quinlan. Audio sting by Charlie Mgee. Visit our website for more information: https://fairfoodfutures.com/

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Episode 7: Civil society in local and global food policy making: a conversation with UN experts Dr Nora McKeon and Maggie Carter

December 05, 2022 • Dr Nora McKeon, Maggie Carter, Joanna Horton, Dr Kiah Smith & Dr Daniel Cruz • Season 1 • Episode 7

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 the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); and Dr. Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and project leader of the Fair Food Futures Project.

Our guests explore the connections between local food justice initiatives and food policy making, both at global and national levels, and discuss different governance pathways to reconfigure food systems.

Our experts highlight the importance of establishing networks of collaboration between all stakeholders across the food system, the need to work in partnership with policy makers, and the current challenges that civic food networks face in the Australian food policy space.

The podcast concludes with reflections on the actions that listeners can pursue to actively participate and influence food policy making in Australia and globally.

Important links:

More information about the Fair Food Futures Project and the scenarios for food justice HERE.

UNRISD Research and Action Network for a New EcoSocial Contract

People’s Consultation on grassroots impacts of COVID19

Civil Society and Indigenous People’s Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Green Economy Coalition

Care Australia

Farmers for Climate Action

Co-Building a New Eco-Social World – Online Global Conference, 29th June to 2nd July 2022

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

The New Economy Network Australia

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The Fair Food Futures project is led by Dr Kiah Smith from The University of Queensland and funded by The Australian Research Council (DE190101126). This podcast is produced by Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, Joanna Horton and VMP Studio, and funded by the Future Earth's Pathways Initiative.

Visit our website at: https://fairfoodfutures.com/