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WORKSHOP WELCOME & INTRO
RIG NETWORK 1.Network communications and information sharing
Cross sectoral links for better practice, new partnerships eg. RIG website, RIG News & Updates, workshops, email
2. Strategic research, advocacy, and practical projects Submissions – eg. National Food Plan; Partnership projects – eg. ALPA EduGrow School Garden Awards; Research – Food Systems, Climate Change, eg. Goulburn Island.
Network Members? People from across top end & Central Australia; WA, NT, Qld, NSW. Get involved? Register, Volunteer, Sponsor, Partner, Network, Consultancy, Work together to develop/deliver new projects.
Contact: Anthea Fawcett, RIG Network, [email protected]: 02 9818 1580/ 0419 478856
Visit: www.remoteindigenousgardens.net register, access info resources
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
WORKSHOP AIMS
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
1. To help build a CDEP network – people and projects
2. To help partner people, projects and expertise, resources
1. To grow the sustainability of CDEP projects
CDEPs and community development partners who have Farms, Gardens, Bush Tucker, Nursery, Horticulture and ‘related’ food and value
adding projects such as markets, healthy takeaways & cafes, healthy & active lifestyle & nutrition cooking programs…
The Program: Workshop & Beyond
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
1. PHASE 1: Peer workshop & lead up activities
RIPL 3 Expression of Interest – Proposal
The Workshop Your CDEP Questionnaire Workshop sessions – inc input to Ph 2 Field Trip Post workshop feedback – Project plans
2. PHASE 2: Networking & follow up (May – mid June)
Reporting back – link-ups, people & projects Further small meetings? Email network… Possible site visits Other – workshop group
Why we’re here?…
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
1. Health, wealth & wellbeing – diverse benefits
2. Sustainability – community projects & enterprise
3. Resilience - remoteness, climate change adaptation, food miles & costs: strengths based, ‘food’ multiple benefits?
4. Build business case – social & financial case for investment - diverse benefits, investors
1. Participation – who, when & how, scale
2. Community Development – process & partnerships
3. Peer learning & support - ppf
Community resilience and wellbeingDifferent types of local food
production activities, gardens & farms each have an important role to play to support people to live well on country… different roles, objectives, time frames & criteria for success –
all are part of building long term capacity for resilience & wellbeing
Commercial farms & Carbon Farming - partnerships &/or
leases on Aboriginal owned land.
CDEP led ‘market’ garden & nursery training projects &
enterprises
Homeland Gardens & Farms – extended
family activities
School Gardens – teaching &
learning, health & nutrition, life skills,
environment
Life Skills & Demonstration
Gardens – Community
Programs, key sites
Home gardens – in communities &
towns
Landscaping & Landcare - ‘fusion’
plantings, food bearing plants
Copyright: RIG Network
Bush food & bush medicine - projects
1. RIG Network: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING
STRATEGIC CONTEXT – CDEP & ‘FOOD” GARDENS & HORTICULTURE…
WHY? CDEP PROVIDERS: Engagement, Participation, Community Development, Training, Work Experience, Life skills, Jobs, Pathways to new training choices…
WHY?
PARTICIPANT GOALS
Augment income
Provide for family
Provide for community
Skills, jobs, interest, pleasure
Cottage Industry
Sole trader
Small business
Social Enterprise
Commercial business
FOOD - Who is the market?- Self & family, friends
- Community & Aged services - Local food stores, markets
- Local? Regional?
TRAINEES – Work ready where?- Pathway to work/ training
- Self? Local projects/enterprises-Agric & Hort Industry, Landcare
‘GARDEN’ TRAINING – What for?-Training for training/CDEP
income- Participation ‘incubator’
- Community project or enterprise
FOOD – How produce used?- Self & family provisioning
- Share, informal sales- Sell formally
FOOD - Current & future markets? - What local or ‘regional’ markets? -New partners, eg. Health, RAPS.
INDUSTRY – links & opportunities? - Industry ? Agriculture, Horticulture- New industry opps, eg. carbon farming, landcare, bush foods- Asset rich, enterprise poor
WHAT AND WHERE IS THE MARKET/THE PATHWAYS
for YOUR TRAINEES and for your PROJECT?
DRIVERS – Healthy Food & Healthy Communities Gardens, Farms, Food Projects diverse benefits
Health & wellbeing• Nutrition & life skills – experiential
learning• Good nutrition – ability to concentrate,
participate• Augment local food – food security• Augment household income• Increase F&V consumption• Special dietary needs – folate, protein,
anaemia – skinny kids, pregnant women• Exercise & physical activity• Stress & emotional health• Social interaction & pleasure• Environmental health• Disabilities & dementia• Special needs learning• Healing - individuals, families, local
Community development• Social inclusion & participation• Caring for country & culture• Safe communities – surveillance• Community development –
projects: social & economic • Potential community owned
enterprise, money in community• Health promotion programs• Training• Employment• Work experience• Transitional pathways• Environmental health• - healthier homes• - dust management• Landcare /Rangers
DRIVERs – Chronic Disease Prevention & M’Ment F&V (& lean meat) not just F&V – life savers & extenders!
Too many people, dying too young from preventable disease – local food projects and enterprises ‘food’ for body & soul!
Up to 19% of National Indigenous health gap is attributable to diet-related causes
Heart Disease - principal cause of death & of excess death among Indigenous people in Australia, and accounts for almost one-third of the life expectancy gap
Poor quality diet are imp. risk factors for 3 of the 4 major causes of death in the Indigenous population (cardiovascular disease, cancer & type 2 diabetes)
Contributor to alarming rates of growth in kidney disease and renal failure.
Babies & infants failure to thrive. Access to nutritious food is paramount to learning, development and quality of life from conception through to old age.
Nationally, Indigenous children under 4 suffer from nutritional anaemia and malnutrition at 29.6 times the rate for non-Indigenous children.
High rates of nutrition-related psychological, behavioural, and social problems
Women exp. high levels of emotional stress and anxiety – comparable to diabetes in terms of contributing to women’s health ‘gap’.
Close The Gap Targets & Building Blocks – ‘Dig’ & Food project benefits connect with them all
Food Security & Food Sovereignty
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
Food security: “The availability of and assured access to sufficient food that is nutritionally adequate, culturally acceptable, safe, and which is obtained in socially acceptable ways”.
International/National debate: Mainstream market mechanisms, agribusiness, conventional modern supply chains, nutritional supplements, stores – FAO, NFP, COAG Food Security Strategy for Remote Indigenous Communities
Food Security – remote communities? Food Citizenship & Food Sovereignty Focus on food for people, by people. Value diverse ways food can be produced and consumed. Values nature & culture – approp science & Tech, Traditional knowledges. Value food producers and their communities Support intergenerational and intragenerational justice – esp. non-renewable resources such as productive lands, cultural sites and water resources. Value local and regional food systems, decision-making and control. * Bottom up Healthy Communities Promotion & Community Development
“The land and the sea is our food security”.
Food security for us is when the food of our ancestors is protected and always there for us and our children. It is also when we can easily access and afford the right non-traditional foods for a collective healthy and active life.
When we are food secure we can provide, share and fulfil our responsibilities, we can choose good food knowing how to make choices and how to prepare and use it. (“Good food systems: Good food for all” project face to face, February 2010)
A STRONG FOOD SYSTEMA strong food system defined by the community.A future without food worries, without hunger, with enough of the right food.
Four dimensions of food security
Food UseFood
Access
Food Availability
Food Security
Access: means & money to buy, means to ‘get to’ shop, is food evenly shared
Know what to eat; Can body properly use food? Immune system, able to absorb
Sustainability & Strong Projects
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
STRONG PROJECTS
STRONG Energy & Local Champions- TO’s & Elders, Leaders- A&TI Organisations- Women, Men, Youth
STRONG Energy & Local Champions- TO’s & Elders, Leaders- A&TI Organisations- Women, Men, Youth
STRONG Design- Culture & community- Technically current, right for local conditions- Local Market, Participants - Strengths - remoteness
STRONG Design- Culture & community- Technically current, right for local conditions- Local Market, Participants - Strengths - remoteness
STRONG Pathways - Participants- Project ‘home’- Staff /Managers- Finance: what pays, what can earn ‘subsidy’
STRONG Pathways - Participants- Project ‘home’- Staff /Managers- Finance: what pays, what can earn ‘subsidy’
STRONG Management & Governance – steps to get there
STRONG Management & Governance – steps to get there
STRONG Local Learnings- Past projects esp Gardens!- Local knowledge & exp.- Land, whose rights, where- ‘Food’ Whose business?!
STRONG Local Learnings- Past projects esp Gardens!- Local knowledge & exp.- Land, whose rights, where- ‘Food’ Whose business?!
STRONG StoryA credible plan that stacks up - the What & Why- How & when - What do people care about
STRONG StoryA credible plan that stacks up - the What & Why- How & when - What do people care about
STRONG Measures- Commercial/Financial- Community Indicators- CDEP Outcomes,
STRONG Measures- Commercial/Financial- Community Indicators- CDEP Outcomes,
STRONG Community Development Linkages & Partnerships
STRONG Community Development Linkages & Partnerships
SNAPSHOT – What you’ve asked for
CDEP Regional Initiatives & Peer Learning Fund Building CDEP capacity & peer support to grow healthy food & healthy communities Workshop, Cairns
1. What to grow in our immediate area – grows well, is high yielding
2. Wet season production and gardening in high rainfall areas
3. Lack of motivation by CDEP participants how to tackle
4. Vandalism – non-growers picking produce too soon
5. Funding – for plants and material
6. Access to skilled people – to get programs up & running, up-skill community
7. Governance – for sustainability, to provide community with skills for longevity
8. We are new to this – don’t have expertise, want to outsource, to see what’s available
9. To soak up info, ensure we do it well, build partnerships & networks for sustainability
10. Production horticulture for where we are – not small scale permaculture
11. How to run a vegetable market stall
12. How to find relevant funding opportunities
13. Processing & packaging requirements for farm produce if retail sale is intended
14. Possibility of community gardens selling to stores? How best approach
15. How can we have some cross-cultural treaties through working arrangements?