Episode 7: Civil society in local and global food policy making: a conversation with UN experts Dr Nora McKeon and Maggie Carter

Fair Food Futures

In the final episode of this podcast series, we reflect on the learnings gathered from our conversations with food systems experts and leaders of civic food networks, and ask how policy can help scale up fairer food systems in Australia.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Nora McKeon, professor at the Rome Tre University, who has worked extensively at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation on food systems governance and rural peoples’ movements; Maggie Carter, Research Analyst at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); and Dr. Kiah Smith, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and project leader of the Fair Food Futures Project.
Our guests explore the connections between local food justice initiatives and food policy making, both at global and national levels, and discuss different governance pathways to reconfigure food systems.
Our experts highlight the importance of establishing networks of collaboration between all stakeholders across the food system, the need to work in partnership with policy makers, and the current challenges that civic food networks face in the Australian food policy space.
The podcast concludes with reflections on the actions that listeners can pursue to actively participate and influence food policy making in Australia and globally.

Important links:

More information about the Fair Food Futures Project and the scenarios for food justice HERE.

UNRISD Research and Action Network for a New EcoSocial Contract
People’s Consultation on grassroots impacts of COVID19
Civil Society and Indigenous People’s Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

UN Sustainable Development Goals
Green Economy Coalition
Care Australia
Farmers for Climate Action
Co-Building a New Eco-Social World – Online Global Conference, 29th June to 2nd July 2022

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

The New Economy Network Australia

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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.

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