Sustainable Food Alliance

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Everyone deserves access to food. Some people, groups and areas in our community experience barriers to accessing sufficient, nutritious and affordable food on a regular basis. This is known as food insecurity.

To address food insecurity in our community, we first need to understand the local food system and environment.

From 2022-2025 the Rural City of Wangaratta participated in the VicHealth Local Government Partnership program module ‘Building better food systems for healthier communities’. To achieve the goals of the program, Council engaged with Sustain: The Australian Food Network and collaborated with Gateway Health to facilitate representatives from neighbourhood houses, community groups, schools and individual community members to form the Rural City of Wangaratta Sustainable Food Alliance. 

The aims of the Alliance are to establish, promote and expand access to a range of local, sustainable, and nourishing food pathways through sustained action in partnership with community stakeholders.

Contact communitywellbeing@wangaratta.vic.gov.au to get involved.