Welcome to the Australian Local Food System Policy Database. This is a collection of policies from New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian local governments that relate to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
For further information about using the database and how it was created see How to use the database. You can search the database by using the fields below. Domain refers to eight broad categories under which various topics are situated. The domains and topics are based on a framework of recommendations for local government action on creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system (also located on the ‘How to use the database’ page linked above).
To cite the database: Reeve B, Carrad A, Rose N, Charlton K & Aguirre-Bielschowsky I (2021) Australian Local Food System Policy Database. Available at: https://law-food-systems.sydney.edu.au/policy-database (access date).
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| Document title | Relevant text in the policy | Domain | Topic | State | Local Government name | Council type |
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| Night Time Economy Action Plan | Explore night time food markets, night-time cinema and family-friendly events in parks and public spaces and link to Council’s Event Strategy. Pilot a regular cultural food market in West Ryde in the West Ryde Plaza. There is potential for this event to be run by local community or cultural groups who could access one of Council’s small grants as seed funding for the event. | Health and Wellbeing | Traditional food cultures | NSW | Ryde | Metropolitan |
| Night Time Economy Action Plan | As part of the review of Council’s Footpath Activity Policy to provide guidance about what is permissible at night (including for example, pop up stalls, eat streets, and street performers) to encourage more diverse night time activity that is not just restaurants and pubs. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Ryde | Metropolitan |
| Night Time Economy Action Plan | Create a “RydeAfter5” section on Council’s website, providing policy or guidance for businesses wanting to open small bars in appropriate town centres (e.g. Gladesville, West Ryde, Eastwood, Top Ryde) and other information about night time events and activities (including Food Truck policy, Outdoor dining, Busking, and Event approvals) | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Ryde | Metropolitan |
| Night Time Economy Action Plan | Explore night time food markets, night-time cinema and family-friendly events in parks and public spaces and link to Council’s Event Strategy. Pilot a regular cultural food market in West Ryde in the West Ryde Plaza. There is potential for this event to be run by local community or cultural groups who could access one of Council’s small grants as seed funding for the event. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Ryde | Metropolitan |
| Night Time Economy Action Plan | Implement a Ryde Food Truck Program with pilot projects in Macquarie Park and Meadowbank Wharf and Memorial Park, Meadowbank – utilising these temporary activations as a way to encourage more permanent activities. See City of Sydney Food Truck Policy. Food Trucks and pop-ups will require approvals and inspections prior to commencing. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Ryde | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Complete the financial business plan for the Edendale Farm Masterplan and include Green Wedge and community agricultural initiatives within Edendale Farm’s interpretation and education programs. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Develop a pilot program to address the potential conflicts between farmers and non-agricultural residents of the rural areas. This should consider a country-code type approach combined with welcoming people into the area and done in conjunction with real estate agents. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Agricultural land comprises properties rated as farms under Council’s farm rate. It is classified as follows under the Land Valuation Act 1960: (1) Not less than two hectares in area; (2) it is primarily used for grazing (including agistment), dairying, pig farming, fish farming, tree farming, beekeeping, viticulture, fruit growing or the growing of crops of any kind or for any combination of those activities; and that it is used by a business (a) that has a significant and substantial commercial purpose or character; (b) that seeks to make a profit on a continuous or repetitive basis from its activities on the land; (c) that is making a profit from its activities on the land, or that has a reasonable prospect of making a profit from its activities on the land if it continues to operate in the way it is operating. A number of properties were identified in the Green Wedge that do not receive the farm rebate but were classified as agricultural land – pigs, poultry and horticulture – for the GWMP (Nillumbik Shire Council 2006, p. 18). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Complete the financial business plan for the Edendale Farm Masterplan and include Green Wedge and community agricultural initiatives within Edendale Farm’s interpretation and education programs. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Council is committed to protecting the Green Wedge and to supporting sustainable economic development including tourism, food production and agriculture (Council Plan 2009–2013, objectives 2.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.2). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Develop a model pilot of sustainable practice/whole farm planning as a beacon-type project based on existing DPI pilots (investigate environmental management systems with farmers). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Discourage fragmentation of existing agricultural land. 9. Discourage rural residential and small lot development on rural land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Encourage actions that contribute to sustainable communities including local food production, transport and social connectedness. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Ensure that agriculture remains technically viable in the Green Wedge. e that agriculture r | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Explore options to support growth of locally based food production. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Identify opportunities to support community sustainable agriculture. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Investigate how incentives can be used to ensure property rating does not over-ride the agricultural value of land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Investigate the best ways in which to provide an advisory service to farmers on business opportunities and to farmers and major land owners on land use and land management including whole farm and landscape scale management (potential urban fringe pilot with DPI which is already running pilots of this nature). | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Investigate the feasibility of pursuing Habitat 141-type initiatives which reconnect landscapes over a large geographic area. [Habitat 141’s vision is to work with private and public land managers, agencies, communities, governments, land owners and farmers to conserve, restore and reconnect ecosystems and habitats over a 700 kilometre stretch of land straddling the South Australia, New South Wales and Victorian borders]. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Prepare a concise paper on small lot development to recommend actions to discourage the further rural residential development of small lots in the Green Wedge. It will clarify the extent of the small lot development issue in the Green Wedge. It will be prepared in the context of the findings of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and the Inquiry into Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Outer Suburban Melbourne. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Provide for housing and a population which meets the social and economic aims of the Green Wedge and its townships without compromising environmental, landscape or neighbourhood character values or undermining agricultural viability. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Retain existing agricultural land for soil-based agricultural production. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Retain existing agricultural land for soil-based agricultural production. 7. Support agriculture in all its forms in the Green Wedge – whether it is broadacre or hobby farming. 8. Discourage fragmentation of existing agricultural land. 9. Discourage rural residential and small lot development on rural land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Support agriculture in all its forms 7. whether it is broadacre or hobby farming. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Undertake appropriate monitoring of impacts of climate change, especially on land capability and water resources and assist the agricultural sector to adapt where necessary. See also action 6.1. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable water management in food production | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Implement education programs for sustainable land management including horse, cattle and alpaca grazing. | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Support programs that reduce food and shopping miles. | Sustainability and Environment | Strengthen food chain connections/distribution | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Undertake appropriate monitoring of impacts of climate change, especially on land capability and water resources and assist the agricultural sector to adapt where necessary. See also action 6.1. | Sustainability and Environment | Food supply and food system resilience | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Explore options to support growth of locally based food production. 7.1 Investigate and implement opportunities to support new, economically viable, agricultural opportunities in the Green Wedge. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |
| Nillumbik Green Wedge Management Plan Part 2: Delivering the vision | Investigate funding for development of a brand and marketing strategy aimed at attracting growers and visitors to the region. This is allied to the sustainable tourism plan action 3.1. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | Victoria | Nillumbik | Metropolitan |