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1 Food Connect Adelaide What does a more resilient food system look like ? Sally Fisher

2 What an unsustainable food system looks like

3 Environment Economic Social & human development Sustainable Development

4 RetailDistributor RetailDistributor Wholesale Market Wholesale Market Grower Retail Outlet Retail Outlet Consumer Food ConnectAdelaide Food ConnectAdelaide Wholesale Market Wholesale Market Grower Retail Outlet Retail Outlet Consumer Supermarket (Supply chain) Food Connect Adelaide Approach (Sustainable Value chain) Produce Flow

5 Food Connect is an organisation that: sources directly from growers delivers locally to customers via City Cousins it is a subscription box scheme supplies a full range of seasonal fruit and vegetables which are predominantly SA grown supplies high quality produce which is predominantly organically grown offers a fair return to growers (stable, reliable) Who is Food Connect Adelaide?

6 Organisation connecting growers with consumers for high quality sustainably produced food Social enterprise Based upon Brisbane model (5 years) Part of a national network of Food Connects. Box schemes in UK are worth £95M pa. Who is Food Connect Adelaide?

7 Growers City Cousin Distribution Point Consumer 1.Consumers order 4 weeks in advance on a subscription model. FCA reviews the demand and then places orders on growers for the delivery of produce direct from farms 2.Growers deliver produce to our warehouse 3.Packed boxes are delivered to City Cousins from where consumers can collect their orders Details of the FCA Model

8 Indicators of a resilient food system Farmer incomes maintained relative to city All cost of food is internalised Rural communities cease declining socially and economically Engaged citizens who care about food quality and production Farms maintain production in a drying climate (efficient use of nat. resources) Minimizes env. impact from paddock to plate All stakeholders in the chain are winners (profitable) (Fearne report)

9 Please come to our launch tomorrow at 10.15, Bradley Form. Thank you

10 Fearne report recommendations Thought leadership Integrated market intelligence and consumer insight Holistic food policy Education and training Regional co-innovation clusters


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