Our Priorities

Activity to support food resilience will address three Priority Areas. The priority areas are:

Integrated Support – Collaborative and connected leadership and innovation;
Place-Based – Support for community food resilience solutions; and
Data and Information – Understanding Tasmanian food relief and food resilience through improved data and information sharing.

The table below details objectives against each Priority Area. These objectives will help to focus Government efforts and will form the foundation of the Strategy Action Plan.

Priority 1

Integrated Support – Collaborative leadership and innovation

The process of surveying local food relief providers and geospatial mapping of their responses demonstrated the complexity of food security in Tasmania. Leadership is needed to build the capacity of local organisations to mobilise action. These focus areas are designed to recognise the inherent connection between food resilience and the safety, health and wellbeing of Tasmanians.

Number	Focus	Objective
1.1	Connection	Identify and promote the factors of success underlying current models of service integration in Tasmania, such as community food hubs, school food programs, hospitality based social enterprises and service referral pathways. Encourage increased connection of these services across Tasmania.
1.2	Connection	Identify the challenges and opportunities for food resilience design and delivery in our regional and remote communities.
1.3	Sector Leadership	Advocate the role and responsibilities of state-wide leaders in food distribution, food literacy and education, and food relief provision across the community sector.
1.4	Food Literacy and Nutrition	Through a systems approach, support the coordination, collaboration and promotion of existing educational programs that provide Tasmanians with the capabilities and nutritional knowledge to access food and to eat well.
1.5	Local Food Systems	Develop opportunities to connect state-wide and local food relief providers and the local agricultural, hospitality, horticulture and processing industries to promote self- sufficiency, and to reduce food waste and food loss.

Priority 2

Place-Based – Supporting community food resilience solutions

Tasmania’s social and geographical diversity presents opportunities for innovation. These focus areas are designed to encourage solutions that are responsive to local need.

Number	Focus	Objective
2.1	Community Led Co-Design	Create connections to better integrate networks and foster partnerships that support locally driven solutions with relevant Government and community sector activities, including school food programs, with priority given to communities with gaps in supply as identified in the Tasmanian Government food mapping survey.
2.2	Community Led Co-Design	Work with the Local Government Association of Tasmania to identify and support opportunities for Councils to lead place-based initiatives to build food resilience.
2.3	Capacity Building	Work with organisations to understand the barriers and motivations of volunteers and volunteer involving organisations, to ensure a sustainable volunteer workforce.
2.4	Capacity Building	Provide access to business and project design support, including support for the development of hospitality-based employment and training opportunities through food relief social enterprises.
2.5	Strengthening Food Systems	Identify pathways to increase community awareness and responsibility for food relief, including avenues for donation of in-kind support, such as backyard, community gardens or surplus produce.

Priority 3

Data and Information – Understanding Tasmanian food relief and food resilience through improved data and information sharing

Data and information sharing must underpin long-term solutions. These focus areas are designed to promote the utility of existing information, and identify the affordability, availability and sustainability of healthy food at the local level – which is vital to identify the communities most reliant on food relief.

Number	Focus	Objective
3.1	Data Gathering	Implement routine collection of organisational based data on the distribution of food relief in Tasmania, including geographic and demographic information where possible to better understand the needs of specific population groups.
3.2	Data Gathering	Undertake regional profiling of food relief and food resilience initiatives in consultation with communities, mapping available geographic and social data relevant to each location. This will build on work already undertaken by the Tasmanian Government in this area.
3.3	Lived experience	Support the collection and dissemination of information on the lived experience of Tasmanians seeking food relief, to inform service design, delivery and evaluation that will lead to food resilience.
3.4	Understanding Systems	Undertake an audit of resources and platforms that assist food relief organisations to deliver their services, support food resilience and provide referral pathways, to increase connectivity and consistency.
3.5	Governance	Support a community sector alliance to inform Government decision-making, advocate sector concerns, share information, monitor demand and contribute to the development of community-based solutions and build local capacity to sustain long-term change. This alliance will liaise directly with the Department of Communities Tasmania.

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