Today, October 16th is World Food Day, a day coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This year’s theme is the “Right to Food”.

Stories about food - on issues of hunger, urban agriculture, food miles, water and carbon costs, food security and sustainability, etc - are welcome to be posted on SustainableMelbourne.com to raise awareness of this issue in the media. To post a story simply email fedwards @unimelb.edu.au or visit the “Contribute a post” tag at the top of SustainableMelbourne.com.

Food related stories that have been submitted on SustainableMelbourne.com include:

Review - “Stuffed and Starved” book launch by Raj Patel
Model & Local Action - Farmer’s Market Newsletter, October
Local Action - Announcing the Growlocal initiative
Local Action & Resource - Spring Seed Swaps/Website/Newsletter
Research - Food Miles in Australia: A preliminary study of Melbourne, Victoria
Resource - Melbourne University Up Close Podcast - Genetically modified (GM) crops: the wheat from the chaff
Model - The Westgarth Fruit and Vegie Collective’s User Manual
Local Action - Ethical Consumer Group meetings and movies
Resource - Presentations and Evaluation now available from the Cities Feeding People Conference

And more! Simply click on the ‘Food‘ tag to see what’s happening around food issues in Melbourne. On a larger city-scale and international basis, also check out the SustainableCitiesNet.com blog for more food examples.