Fair Food Futures

The Fair Food Futures podcast explores the stories and visions for change put forth by community food networks in Australia as they seek to progress transformations towards sustainable food futures, and identifies the strategies, challenges and opportunities for making civil society’s visions for fair food futures come to life. Our main questions were: what does it mean to do ‘food justice’ in Australia? What does your fair food future look like, and how do we get there? With these questions in mind, we listened to stories from leaders of grassroots food organisations, community workers, farmers, First Nations communities, activists, consumers, academics and global policy makers. By bringing these voices together, the Fair Food Futures podcast aims to create a space for dialogue and alliance building between members of civic food networks in Australia, and contribute to ongoing conversations about the opportunities and challenges for policy change. Fair Food Futures is based on research conducted at The University of Queensland and funded by the Australian Research Council, in collaboration with civic food networks in Australia. The Fair Food Futures Podcast is produced and facilitated by Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, and Joanna Horton, from the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. It was made possible thanks to the support of the Future Earth's Pathways Communication Grants Program. Recorded at VMP Studio by Liam Polmear & Ian Chapman. Illustrations by Brenna Quinlan. Audio sting by Charlie Mgee. Visit our website for more information: https://fairfoodfutures.com/

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Fair Food Futures

Episode 1: ‘Creating fair food futures in Australia’: A yarn with Costa Georgiadis

October 08, 2022 • Costa Georgiadis, Dr Kiah Smith, Joanna Horton, Dr Daniel Cruz • Season 1 • Episode 1

In this introductory episode of the Fair Food Futures podcast, Dr Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland; and landscape architect, TV presenter, and gardening superstar Costa Georgiadis, engage in a conversation about the diversity of grassroots fair food initiatives in Australia.

Imagining he had a 'magic wand', Costa describes his ideal 'fair food future', and talks with Kiah about how civic food initiatives can be scaled-up to transform the wider food system. The conversation also touches on the challenges and opportunities for materialising these fair food futures through the Australian policy making space.

This first episode provides details on the participatory design and findings of the Fair Food Futures Project, as well as the themes, guests, scenarios and pathways for transformative change in the food systems that will be discussed in the upcoming episodes.

More information about the Fair Food Futures Project and the scenarios:

https://fairfoodfutures.com/explore-the-scenarios/

Costa's website: https://costasworld.com.au/

Organisations mentioned by Costa Georgiadis and Dr Kiah Smith:

https://foodconnect.com.au/

https://sustain.org.au/

https://www.facebook.com/CropSwapAustralia/

https://communitygarden.org.au/

https://ceres.org.au/

https://www.northfreosocialfarm.org/

https://www.farmitforward.com.au/

https://loopgrowers.com/

Like and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more updates about fair food systems in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9Jg67LCCUWV9on5gGLtTg

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The Fair Food Futures project is led by Dr Kiah Smith from The University of Queensland and funded by The Australian Research Council (DE190101126). This podcast is produced by Dr Kiah Smith, Dr Daniel Cruz, Joanna Horton and VMP Studio, and funded by the Future Earth's Pathways Initiative.

Visit our website at: https://fairfoodfutures.com/