National Food Strategy
Kia ora koutou. Extraordinary times. I hope your family and loved ones are safe and well. I want to acknowledge the significant brain muscle in this group, and ask you a question. If a strategy is a 'plan of action', what would you like to see in a national food strategy.
Gina Wed 13 May 2020 12:39AM
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Emily King Sun 17 May 2020 8:55AM
Kia ora koutou, I've also somehow missed this thread and a few others on Loomio lately, so apologies about that. We need to ensure that:
access to healthy and nutritious food is included
sustainable food business: support for food businesses to understand the value chain of food and how to have sustainable practices (energy, transport, waste, water useage)
school lunches / education / food literacy
cooking programmes and community based kitchen facilities to encourage food literacy
Distribution of food in a practical sense (trucking food around burning fossil fuels needs to be reconsidered in NZ) - how to have more sustainable transportation options / trains / boats etc not just big trucks on the road (difficult due to our terrain and roading I know but in city areas this could really be improved)
many city wide food initiatives including loosening up regulations around where and how food can be grown in cities, providing maps of available land for planting, councils having food resilience officers and community brokers working on food production in every borough / board area
every district plan having an associated section that matches the National Food Strategy so that planning and policy at a district and city level corresponds with national incentives. This means that it's not a regional council function as soil and water is at the moment but is across all, including health
Ok I have a lot more ideas on this to include!
Aaron McLean 路 Wed 13 May 2020 12:38AM
Some pretty good arguments here
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/regenerative-agriculture-podcast/id1372359995?i=1000474289446
Pay farmers for ecosystem services as incentive.