Dr Rachel Carey discusses food systems | April 5, 2024 | Stock & Land - video Dailymotion

Dr Rachel Carey, senior lecturer in food systems at the University of Melbourne. Video by Andrew Miller.

Transcript

00:00 The research you're doing, how does that fit into the latest policy on green

00:04 wedges and agricultural land? So the Victorian Food Resilience Planning

00:09 Project is looking at how we can support

00:12 policy makers and other stakeholders in taking actions

00:16 to make our food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses and that involves

00:21 actions throughout food supply chains from production

00:24 to consumption and one key action of course to ensure that

00:27 food systems are resilient to shocks and stresses in future is to

00:30 retain food production locally around cities.

00:34 It's really important now that we protect

00:37 all remaining farmland around Melbourne but also around other regional

00:41 towns and cities in Victoria as well to ensure that we keep

00:45 food production as close to those population centres as we can as like a

00:50 buffer if you like to those disruptions that

00:52 might occur to our food supply in the future particularly due to climate

00:56 events such as fires and floods and storms.