These notes were taken from a group discussion session at the Food Sovereignty Convergence in Canberra, 23/24 November 2017.
- Focus currently in QLD and land clearing
- Menu for change
- Urban landscapes and peoples relationship with them
- Canberra- high number of eucalypts dying- need to be replanting for climate change capacity
- Need to be planting for pollinators
- Pollinator corridors
- Climate impacts on our food growing systems
- Needs to be a collaborative effort
- Big issue, broad conversation
- Farmers doing large scale regenerative projects
- Food for Thought festival WA
- Adaptation and mitigations→ what actions are appropriate?
- Sustainable food systems and restorative agriculture
- Let’s amplify what positive things are happening in the world. Focus on what is strong, not wrong.
- Establishing networks of change and working in partnership
- Media and communications is focused on the dire situation, not take action
- Traditional land practices most resilient systems
- Young people moving into the farming space- developing positive stories, inspiring hope.
- Farmers get alienated for being seen to make a stand. Someone who is respected in conventional farming but has a lot of knowledge on the benefits
- Carbon studies- grain vs grass vs regenerative – what is the best way?
- Need to work with farmers to develop pollinator corridors- farmers need support
- Go from pollinator desert to pollinator forage
- Bees are about food security and sustainable farming is about bee security
- Don’t focus on monocultures. Regenerative farming needs to diversify.