Food Security in Australia

Quentin Farmar-Bowers has worked in agriculture, public policy and natural resource management since 1971.  His previous book was Making Sustainable Development Ideas Operational: A General Technique for Policy Development.   Vaughan Higgins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Recent books include Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing (with Wendy Larner) and Rural Governance: International Perspectives (with Lynda Cheshire and Geoffrey Lawrence).   Joanne Millar is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning and Policy at Charles Sturt University, Australia.  Joanne has published in Demographic Change in Rural Australia: Implications for Society and Environment and the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

1. Introduction: The Food Security Problem in Australia.- Part I. Food Equity and Access.- 2. Food Security in Australia – The Logistics of Vulnerability.- 3. Ethics of Food Security.- 4. Interdisciplinary Conversations on Complexities of Food/In Security.- 5. Institutional Capacity of Local Government to Embed Food Security into Policy.- 6. The Question of a Reasonable Price for Food: Policy Alternatives to Control Food Price Inflation in Developed Economies.- 7. Selecting Interventions for Food Security in Remote Indigenous Communities.- 8. Hungry for Change: The Sydney Food Fairness Alliance.- 9. Community Supported Agriculture and Agri-Food Networks: Growing Food, Community and Sustainability?.- 10. The Emergency Relief Sector in Victoria, Australia.- Chapter 11. Case Studies on Food Equity and Access.- Part II. Food Production, Policy and Trade.- 12. The Impacts of Climate Change on Australia’s Food Production and Exports.- 13. Increasing Food Production Sustainably in a Changing Climate – Understanding the Pressures and Potential.- 14. Enhancing Food Security in Australia by Supporting Transformative Change.- 15. Framing the Research Needs for Food Security in Australia.- 16. Water Sovereignty and Food Security.- 17. Food Security and Soil Health.- 18. Australian Food Security Dilemmas – Comparing Nutritious Production Scenarios and their Environmental, Resource and Economic Tensions.- 19. ‘Sustainable Standards?’ How Organic Standards in the EU and Australia Affect Local and Global Agri-Food Production and Value Chains.- 20. How do you Eat the Elephant in the Room? Agri-Food Sustainability and King Island.- 21. A New Harvest of the Suburbs.- 22.  Farming in Rural Amenity Landscapes – Maintaining Food Productivity in a Changing Environment.- 23. Food Security in a Two Speed Economy: Horticultural Production in Western Australia.- 24. Case Studies on Food Production, Policy, and Trade.- Part III. Land Use and Planning.- 25. Is Food aMissing Ingredient in Australia’s Metropolitan Planning Strategies?.- 26. Help or Hindrance? The Relationship between Land Use Planning and Urban Agriculture on the Gold Coast.- 27. Farming the City Fringe: Dilemmas for Peri-Urban Planning.- 28. By Accident or Design? Peri-Urban Planning and the Protection of Productive Land on the Urban Fringe.- 29. Development, Dilution and Functional Change in the Peri-Urban Landscape: What does it Really Mean for Agriculture?.- 30. Final Word: Australia’s Food Security Challenges.