2. Food Security: Beyond Backyards Food Production in the City

3. Donna Ferretti FPIA CPP Planning Institute of South Australia

4. Zannie Flanagan CEO, Strategic Planning, and Marketing Adelaide Showground Farmers Market

5. Debbie Saegenschnitter Registered Landscape Architect outerspace landscape architects

7. In 1996, countries at the World Food Summit agreed that: ‘Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle.’

8. An Ecological Footprint is a measure of how much productive land and water they require to produce all the resources they consume and to absorb all the waste they generate, using prevailing technology. It is measured in global hectares.

9. Average Australian has ecological footprint of 7.7 hectares or 4.2 planets. Fair resource use is 1.8 ha per person. Food is approx. 48% of our footprint.

10. Australian Orange juice 2,024km Lettuce 54k Beef 298km Fresh milk 348km Tinned baked beans 3,132km Oranges from California 12, 879km Oranges from Australia 567km Tomatoes from your back yard 10m HOW FAR DOES OUR FOOD TRAVEL FROM THE FARM TO OUR TABLE??

11. 40% waste to landfill is food 2004 Australians wasted $5.3 billion in food or the equivalent of 186kg per person per year

12. Ensure no more loss of productive land to housing Population caps Use of open space for food production Community gardens Backyard gardening Reuse of food waste – food rescue Food co-operatives

13. ENSURE NO MORE LOSS OF PRODUCTIVE LAND TO HOUSING

14. POPULATION CAPS

15. USE OF OPEN SPACE FOR FOOD PRODUCTION

18. “Flowers grow in flower gardens …vegetables grow in vegetable gardens… and people grow in community gardens.” Auckland City Council

28. http://www.ozharvest.org/

29. http://www.foodconnect.com.au/

30. Links The centre for education and research in environmental strategies www.ceres.org.auwww.ceres.org.au Ecological footprint www.epa.vic.gov/ecologicalfootprint/ Oz Harvest www.ozharvest.org Food Connect www.foodconnect.com.au Sustainable communities www.scnpsp.wordpress.com which contains all of these links and more if you are interestedwww.scnpsp.wordpress.com

32. Angela Hazebroek President Planning Institute of Australia SA Division

33. Panel Susan Phillips – City of Onkaparinga Debbie Saegenschnitter – outerspace landscape architects Andrew Bishop – Land Management Corporation Zannie Flanagan – Adelaide Showground Farmers Market