Australian Food Story: Feeding the Nation and Beyond

REPORT - November 2023

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Contents

Foreword

Members

Terms of reference

Abbreviations

List of recommendations

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - A national food security strategy

Introduction
What should a national food security strategy do?
Committee Comment

Chapter 3 - Food production, consumption and export

Introduction
Are we food secure?
Food production and consumption
Feeding the world?
The role of exports in Australian food security
Keeping farms viable
Food innovation
Committee Comment

Chapter 4 - Inputs

Vital inputs
Labour – problems and potential solutions
Imported inputs
Local inputs
Committee Comment

Chapter 5 - The supply chain

Introduction
Impact on the cost and availability of food
Lessons from COVID
Transport networks and their vulnerabilities
Food Waste
Committee comment

Chapter 6 - Climate change and biosecurity

Introduction
Potential impacts of climate change
Adaptation and innovation
The challenge of biosecurity
Committee comment

Chapter 7 - Food insecurity

Introduction
What is food insecurity?
How many people are food insecure?
Origins and impacts of food insecurity
Nutritional education and awareness
Indigenous communities and remote areas
Responses to food insecurity
Committee comment

A. Submissions

B. Exhibits

C. Public hearings

Australian Food and Nutrition Policy 1992
National Food Plan 2013
NSW Parliamentary Committee report 2022
CSIRO 2023—Reshaping Australian Food Systems
Local Government food strategies—Cardinia Shire

Canada
UK food strategy
Scotland

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