The Australian Conservation Foundation
Conservation Group Calls for Urgent Reset of Australia’s Food System
The Australian Conservation Foundation has welcomed the release of the federal government’s National Food Security Strategy discussion paper as a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and renewed calls to deliver a food system that works for nature, consumers and farmers.
The announcement by Agriculture Minister Julie Collins, is part of the government’s election promise to develop Feeding Australia: a national food security strategy, and follows a CSIRO report that revealed the hidden environmental and health costs of Australia’s broken food system could be as high as $274 billion.