The Food for Thought Festival is a week-long flagship event based in and around Albany in Western Australia. This year the focus is on courageous leadership enabling systems change, through regenerative food and agricultural systems. Featuring the impressive and inspiring Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund - Farm to Plate Director, Jake Claro (also our guest on episode 51), Commonland’s Dieter van den Broek and Dr Nick Rose from Sustain: The Australian Food Network. Anthony James will host a vital conversation on the Friday morning on creating a Great Southern Food Network.
Jake Claro’s not to be missed presentation will address matters of direct relevance and importance to policy-makers and stakeholders working at the local and state government levels in Australia including:
Viability challenges for regenerative farmers / farmers delivering social/environmental goods and the public investment argument to support them
The realities / challenges / key success factors for food distribution enterprises
How to combine economic development goals with enhancing good food access and tackling food insecurity
What have been the critical success factors for the major successes achieved in the first 10 years of the Farm to Plate Plan
Policy frameworks and funding requirements to implement the Farm to Plate Plan
Governance, engagement and the role of Collective Impact methodology.
The festival continues to showcase Western Australia as a world leader in regenerative, healthy and democratic food systems. This year’s key festival events kick off on March 19th in Albany and will show off a combination of Innovation Studios that build on the food system Dialogue Studios carried out in 2019, two RegenWA field days for farmers, two long table dinners with the amazing Fervor, the Sustainable Communities Festival with GreenSkills and finally a Slow Food Italian Autumn Feast at Oranje Tractor. There is something for everyone so go ahead and reserve your place at the table now.
Event Info:
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 - NEW DATES TBC
Food for Thought Festival, various venues in and around Albany, Western Australia