Planning for Food Justice within Urban Australia

Abstract

In light of concerns about sustainability, climate change and peak oil, local governments and urban planners in Australia are taking an increasing interest in food. At the same time there is a growing critique of the alternative food movement and an emerging body of scholarship that suggests we focus our efforts on justice in the food system. This chapter examines food justice in Australia from the perspectives of food retailing, the commodity surplus distribution system, land control, and public participation. It concludes that urban planners must make more effort to challenge food system injustice.