Australian Food Supply Scenarios

It will “use an innovative scenario modelling approach to quantify the potential impacts of population growth, consumption patterns, urban form, agricultural practices and transport systems with emerging climate and environmental challenges, on Australia’s future food security.”

Project detail

In 2009, VicHealth funded a VEIL-led consortium to investigate whether challenges to food production could impact on Victorian menu planning and the availability of a nutritious diet.

This research discovery project was undertaken by the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (at the University of Melbourne), Deakin University and CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems with Victorian Government partners including the Department of Planning and Community Development.

The objective of this project was to develop and demonstrate a new methodology to link land and resource use with availability of a nutritionally adequate food supply for Victoria’s population. To do so, it has built the capability of the CSIRO stocks and flows model as a platform for on-going ‘what-if’ investigation of Victorian and Australian food supply security.

Publications

• Victorian Food Supply Scenarios 2011 – Full Report
• Victorian Food Supply Scenarios 2011 – Summary
• Review of Agricultural Methods
• Submission: Senate Inquiry into Food Production in Australia