A while ago I wrote about the closure of the Heinz tomato processing factory at Girgarre, Victoria; they exited Australia to conduct processing offshore. This affects 15 workers directly but about 600 jobs in the local area and leaves tomato growers in the Valley with just one processor – who is systematically screwing down prices [...]
“I believe that any fundamental change to our food system has to begin with a very simple question, and that question is how does it taste? A focus on taste will lead us to make better decisions about how and where we grow our food, how we distribute and store it, how we market and [...]
Good-bye Old Economy.
In May 2011, Heinz announced it was closing its tomato sauce factory in Girgarre in northern Victoria.
I was anticipating this report about Americans teaching Australian farmers about social media and how to “agvocate”.
After promising a national food plan during last year’s election, this week the Federal Government gave a glimpse of what might be in it with the release of an issues paper. And there are a lot of issues to consider when trying to work out how to double food production by 2050 to meet global [...]
OpenIDEO partnered with the Queensland Government and the IDEAS Festival and offered the challenge, “How might we better connect food production and consumption?”
Professor Bill Bellotti encourages us to challenge the existing world views on what we should eat.