Research Report Strengthening farmer – buyer relationships with governance Working towards whole crop purchasing for zero on-farm food waste Through the Whole Crop Purchasing project, Open Food Network has been facilitating connections between Victorian-based...
Towards a Healthy, Regenerative and Equitable Food System in Victoria: A Consensus Statement The COVID-19 pandemic and recent floods in QLD and NSW have shone a light on just how unprepared our food system is for (un)natural disasters. ‘One in a hundred-year’ floods...
RESEARCH Strengthening Victoria’s Foodshare organisations Foodshares play a vital part in helping to feed those experiencing hardship – in fact, they are somehow able to turn a $1 donation into over $66 worth of food! The Open Food Network has contributed...
Research report The impacts of COVID-19 on values-based food supply networks in Australia and the sector’s response The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the global food system on many levels. Shocks to the food system led to empty supermarket shelves and...
Our projects Food systems research for ClimateWorks’ Land Use Futures When Monash University’s ClimateWorks launched their Land Use Futures project in 2018, they quickly realised that they needed food systems input to shape their modelling of land use and...
