May 2019. Happy 10th Birthday RIG Network - Working to support local food production in and by remote Indigenous communities since 2009, “fusion gardens”, more traditional foods, fruit and veg - for better health, wealth and wellbeing.
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2019 is the international Year of Indigenous Languages, coinciding with the UN Decade of Action On Nutrition (2016-2015) and exciting work underway to promote ‘agrobiodiversity’ in our diets, food systems and landscapes. We urgently ‘need’ to ‘cover’ more of the land with resilient, productive, edible plants -especially as thousands of drought affected acres are vulnerable to wind and flood
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Major LANCET Report - healthy diets to sustain people, healthy food systems that offer pathways to sustain the planet - live within boundaries
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This groundbreaking work by Bruce Pascoe has - and is - profoundly changing the way we see ourselves, our history, the land and pathways forward to care for ourselves and the country we all rely upon.
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2020: Closing the Gap - Indigenous lead Coalition of Peaks, with Governments, have developed 16 new targets - all power to the new approach and strategy to go and deliver well!
For the first time, the target areas will include justice, out-of-home care, suicide, language preservation, housing and land rights, and are expected to include:
- Moving 30 per cent of young Indigenous prisoners out of detention by 2031
- Moving 15 per cent of Indigenous adults out jail by 2031
- Reducing by 45 per cent the number Indigenous children in out-of-home care by 2031
- Having 88 per cent of Aboriginal families not living in over-crowded homes by 2031
- Having 67 per cent of Indigenous youth in education, employment or training by 2031
- Having 70 per cent of young Indigenous people with a tertiary qualification by 2031
- Reducing Indigenous suicide rates
- Reducing rates of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children
- Increasing the use of Indigenous languages
- Improving land and sea rights for Indigenous people
Commissioned by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the guide is a useful tool for anyone planning a new garden or place-making project or looking to re-energise existing food and other garden projects in remote areas.
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