The University of Melbourne's Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab published this report in April 2008. It provides an overview of Victoria's food production and consumption system, its impacts on the environment, and its vulnerability to environmental problems and resource constraints.
The aim of the report is to identify any significant challenges to the future security of the food system in Victoria, that arise from environmental and resource issues and the risks, constraints and social or political responses to these. The report also considers a range of response strategies being developed and explored at various points across the food system (including low-input production methods, changing distribution systems such as farmers' markets and changing consumer food choices).
This report is primarily a 'mapping' of information sources across the food system, to provide a sense of 'what we know' and 'what we need to know'. Research has involved literature scans, selective interviews and correspondence with researchers and research groups, as well as some consultative workshops. It has also drawn on secondary sources including general media to map social concerns and awareness about food sustainability issues.
While focused on the Australian (and specifically Victorian) context, the report will certainly be of interest to UK and US members who are interested in food supply chain sustainability.
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