Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi — The old net is cast aside whilst the new net goes fishingThe 2021 State of the Nation Report states: 'The disruption of the Covid19 pandemic is huge and has negatively affected all of the areas we monitor. The...
Wellington City Mission, supported by New World, have introduced an innovative new Social Supermarket, improving food security for Wellingtonians in need.In a shift from the traditional City Mission food parcel model puts shopper experience and choice at the heart of its new initiative. Wellington City Missioner...
Three years ago, in the remote community of Milingimbi in the Northern Territory of Australia residents struggled to find fresh fruit and vegetables but now the community has come up with a way to supplement the supply, while also passing on traditional practices. Read case study ...
The World Economic Forum has announced Paris is opening the worlds largest urban rooftop farm supplying a tonne of food a day.The French government aims to cover approx 100 hectares of the city rooftops. Read more here ...
The Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective is made up of a group of social service organisations who are working together to eliminate food insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand. This collective supports the work of over 200 community food organisations across New Zealand, while also undertaking the...
Chris Farrelly of the Auckland City Mission recommends we use this time in COVID-19 as an opportunity to address food security....
Dr Geoff Kira (Nga Puhi) is a senior lecturer in Public Health at Massey University. “I’m a public health scientist with the School of Health Sciences at Massey. My research is a wide variety of things, with a focus on interventions that will positively impact unfair...
Over the last few years, the demand for food at the Auckland City Mission has continually and dramatically increased. Moved by the reality that tens of thousands of Aucklanders – and in increasing numbers – don’t have enough food and are forced to seek support, the...
Researchers explored how food insecurity was experienced in Maori households and how this can affect hauora (well-being)....
Food insecurity is an issue that no New Zealand family should have to worry about. Unfortunately this is not currently the case in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This report describes the prevalence of household food insecurity among our tamariki....
