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, anthea@remoteindigenousgardens.netPh: 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?