The Food and Nutrition Guidelines Series includes five population-specific documents that provide evidence based technical information on food, nutrition and physical activity for health practitioners. This report describes the independent evaluation of the Guidelines undertaken in 2011. The evaluation mainly involved key informant and stakeholder interviews and an electronic survey of health practitioners who are...

This paper examines who in Australia is currently growing their own food, their motivations, and barriers in relation to home and community gardening. Summary Australia’s high rate of urbanisation means that most people experience a significant disconnect between their food production and consumption. Over several decades, suburban gardens have ceased to be major sites of...

It’s not uncommon to hear that the cost of living in Australia – and Sydney in particular – is among the highest in the world. And in exploiting our fear of hip-pocket pain, politicians and the media have fuelled our sense that keeping up with day-to-day expenses is getting harder and harder.

Sustainable design and planning could play increasingly important roles in creating food efficient built environments of the future. This paper reviews design approaches and emerging theories in food efficient of design and planning for built environments.

This report is intended to assist people making a submission to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the import of processed tomato products. About the inquiry On 21 June 2013, the Australian Government asked the Commission to inquire into whether safeguard action under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules is justified against imports of processed tomato products...