Building resilient local food ecosystems in a growth corridor: A focus on the city of Logan
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Desha, Cheryl
Burkett, Ingrid
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The experience of food insecurity for many people is transitory, such as short-term and sudden drops in ability to access food due to shocks, fluctuations in the food supply system and rising cost of food (Reis, Desha & Burton 2020). According to the FoodBank Hunger Report 2022, over the past year, approximately 29% of food-insecure Australians experienced transitory food insecurity but were able to recover in a short time period. The time taken to bounce-back is reported to take longer for 17% of the population when they are impacted by repeated interruptions to food access. With those repeated interruptions, the experience of episodic and more intrenched impacts occur for 32% of the food-insecure population (FoodBank 2022). Chronic food insecurity is marked by the persistent inability to meet minimum food requirements over a sustained period of time which are typically driven by lack of financial resources (FAO 2008). The FoodBank study reports 23% of food-insecure Australians experiencing persistent levels over the past year (FoodBank 2022). For the City of Logan, the socio-economic profiles demonstrate the prevalent experience of disadvantage over time (Zapplia & Cheshire 2014; .idcommunity 2016b 2021; James 2019) with subsequent vulnerabilities to these experiences of food insecurities. The City of Logan hosts a major population growth corridor that presents challenges for interrupted supply of food as food demand increases and cost of food rises.
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food resilience
food insecurity
Logan, Queensland
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Reis, K., Desha, C., & Burkett, I. (2023). Building resilient local food ecosystems in a growth corridor: A focus on the city of Logan. Griffith University. https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/5028