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What is the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
Who Are We?
THE ALLIANCE formed in Sydney in 2005 to coordinate the efforts of rural producers, health professionals, community workers and community-based advocates active in developing a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable food system in the Sydney region.
Download... What is the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance (pdf 543KB)
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Understanding Food Insecurity
FOOD INSECURITY is that constant feeling of anxiety that comes from trying to provide enough food for yourself or your family. The idea that food insecurity exists in an affluent nation like Australia might sound a bit far fetched.
Download... Understanding Food Insecurity (pdf 1.94MB)
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Understanding Food Miles
THE ‘FOOD MILE’ is a measure of the distance food travels from where it is grown or raised to where it is purchased by the consumer. Increasingly in Australia, supermarket shelves are stocked with imported food and food products that have been hauled thousands of kilometres: kiwifruit from Italy, oranges from Brazil.
Download... Understanding Food Miles (pdf 1.85MB)
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Options for an Alternative Food System
Save the world? Change the way you eat...
FOOD, IT’S MANY THINGS — but enjoyable though it might be, food has become the focus of serious concern over the way it is grown, processed, distributed and served.
Download... Options for an Alternative Food System (pdf 2.2MB)
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What are Community Gardens
GROWING YOUR OWN fresh food in your local community garden is a new way to healthy eating practiced by increasing numbers of Australians.
Download... What are Community Gardens (pdf 1.68KB)
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People Gather Around Food
Celebrating food and culture
FOOD NOURISHES and connects us. Every day, all over the world, people gather around food, whether for the simple satisfaction of hunger or to re-create the bonds that connect us — what the noted Australian chef and author, Stephanie Alexander, calls “the community of the table”.
Download... People Gather Around Food (pdf 771KB)
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Sydney Basin Agriculture
local food, local economy
"SOME OF THE MOST fertile and productive agricultural land in Australia is found in the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment on Sydney’s western edge — the Sydney Basin.
Download... Sydney Basin Agriculture (pdf 799KB)
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