Local food and nutrition policy

Local food and nutrition policies (small-scale efforts to create food systems that respond to nutritional needs) are becoming more and more fashionable as a way of improving public health in Australia. Opportunities for local food and nutrition policies include urban planning, institutional catering, the private sector and local government. These policies are only feasible in organisational environments that are ready to receive them, although their chances of improving the population's food supply can be maximised by copying some aspects of successful policy programs of the past.