Indigenous and Aboriginal People

Food security

Rural/Remote Metropolitan
• Distance to how far a shop will be (some • Prices of food

may travel up to 4 hrs = longline shelf • Job insecurity due to lack of education

food) possibly only once a fortnight

• Lower levels of income

• Minimal job opportunities further away • Gap between the indigenous people

(affordability) employment
• Cost of living is more expensive than
• Are there jobs located in the community rural/remote areas

or do they have to spend money on • Processed foods and access to alcohol

travel
is more convenient = higher sugar, salt
• Food in rural areas is often 4x as much in and fat in the diet

metropolitan areas
• Often don’t have access to traditional
• Food milage (how far the food had foods in metropolitan areas
travelled)

• Inadequate supply of food in rural/remote

areas (quality of food isn’t as good)

• Alcoholic beverages may be cheaper

than water itself

• Have to purchase fresh bottled water

Avalibilty

Accessibility

Agency

Adequacy

Acceptability

Nutritional program

Design a nutrition project with community – What would you do (choose one)?
Community gardens

- community garden is the chosen nutritional project in the community as it allows

individuals to get hands on and actually help assist grow the plants

- These individuals have high levels of type II diabetes, increasing accessibility to fresh
food may be able to decrease this number

- Only 1 supermarket in the area, this community garden will be able to increase access
to fresh foods

- Also be cheaper as this community is looking after the garden themselves, allow them
to access nutritional foods

- Would be an ongoing program (all year round)

When and where is it delivered?

- community garden could be located near the supermarket in this town. This will allow
the people who are going to the supermarket to also have access to this garden and
make this choice for themselves to select natural, nutritious foods

- With this nutritional program, individuals from the program would need to visit a few
times per year in order to maintain the garden and introduce new food products for
seasonal variations

How would you engage with community?

- to engage community allow them to help build the garden, plant the seedlings, water
the seeds

- after the community garden is set up, the community will have to stick to a rotational
program in order to maintain this garden for each other

Who will run the program? Run by elder indigenous older (people will feel safe), people
will not listen to non-indigenous people due to past, need to build trust

Who can access it? Could be set up within a school to allow school children to access
this. Increase nutritional access for children