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It’s been an exciting and busy start to the year at Mountain Ash Insights. Late last year we started a project for Huon Valley Council to develop the Huon Valley Food Resilience Strategy. This project is off the back of the highly successful Huon Valley Food Hub project - which we've enjoyed being a part of over the past year. In the first phase of the Food Resilience Strategy project, we reviewed relevant policy, conducted background desktop research, consulted with experts, and applied our strategic insights to reveal key themes surrounding this topic including: varying drivers and priorities for food resilience for different stakeholders, systemic barriers such as insurance and regulation limiting local food systems, the importance of relationships for building and maintaining resilience, and the particular contribution women of the Huon make in community building and food knowledge. In the next phase of this project, we are talking to agricultural industry stakeholders of the Huon Valley. We have already had great conversations with people from fruit, grains, fishing and aquaculture industries with further stakeholder engagement still to come. We love that as we develop the Food Resilience Strategy, we are creating local resilience by forging new relationships and building our community networks. Mountain Ash Insights will be facilitating several workshops over the coming weeks with community food system experts, to further explore the strategic priorities for food resilience in the Huon Valley. For this project, Mountain Ash Insights is delighted to be working with Freestate Studios - a global creative agency based in Melbourne. We look forward to Freestate’s visit to the Huon Valley next month, where we will work together to develop the final Strategy. The Huon Valley Food Resilience Strategy has been a fascinating project thus far and we’re excited to see how it evolves over the next few months. Watch this space to come with us on the journey!
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