Dr Rachel Carey, senior lecturer in food systems at the University of Melbourne. Video by Andrew Miller.
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00:00 The research you're doing, how does that fit into the latest policy on green
00:04 wedges and agricultural land? So the Victorian Food Resilience Planning
00:09 Project is looking at how we can support
00:12 policy makers and other stakeholders in taking actions
00:16 to make our food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses and that involves
00:21 actions throughout food supply chains from production
00:24 to consumption and one key action of course to ensure that
00:27 food systems are resilient to shocks and stresses in future is to
00:30 retain food production locally around cities.
00:34 It's really important now that we protect
00:37 all remaining farmland around Melbourne but also around other regional
00:41 towns and cities in Victoria as well to ensure that we keep
00:45 food production as close to those population centres as we can as like a
00:50 buffer if you like to those disruptions that
00:52 might occur to our food supply in the future particularly due to climate
00:56 events such as fires and floods and storms.