How we eat: Australia’s food retail environment and the future of the food system
A State of the Food System Webinar
FRIDAY, 10 October 2025
12:00 to 1:00PM AEST; 1:00 to 2:00PM ADST
ONLINE MS Teams
How we eat is strongly shaped by Australia’s retail food environments – with consequences for sustainability and resilience in our food system, and for the health of the Australian community. Seeking better outcomes in these areas offers benefits for our food security, for the ongoing profitability of our agricultural industries and the cost of our health systems, and for global emissions. Establishing and pursuing priorities to guide how food is distributed and accessed in Australia is a vital part of building the food system that will support and strengthen Australia into the future.
Join us to hear from Roz White, Dheepa Jeyapalan, Dr David Reynolds and Dr Lilly Lim-Camacho, who will share their perspectives on the user interface of the Australian food system and its future.
Read more about Australia’s food retail environment.
Who will you hear from?
Roz White, Panellist
Roz White is an award-winning business leader with over 30 years’ experience, a charity volunteer and leading advocate for various industry groups. Roz is the co-owner of White’s IGA Group and launched their Locavore program almost 15 years ago with a simple but powerful vision: to shine a light on the extraordinary food being grown, made, and crafted right here in our region. This platform celebrates local stories, connects people to the source of their food, and honours the hands and hearts behind every item on White’s IGA shelves, and now encompasses hundreds of Sunshine Coast local producers, growers, makers and suppliers.
Dheepa Jeyapalan, Panellist
Dheepa Jeyapalan is a dietitian and public health expert who views food as a catalyst for societal transformation. Her career spans academia, international NGOs, and VicHealth, where she led the food systems team.
As lead convenor for food systems at Regen Melbourne, Dheepa works with coalition of actors to create a regenerative, resilient, and just food system for Greater Melbourne.
Dr David O. Reynolds, Panellist
David brings a social science perspective to linking system-level sustainable change with how households live, to inform effective pathways towards societal goals. He is currently examining how resilience and sustainability in the Australian food system can be enhanced by how people source their food.
David is an author of the ‘Retail Environments’ chapter in the Towards a state of the food system report for Australia recently released by CSIRO.
Dr Lilly Lim-Camacho, Chair and host
Lilly is a Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Agriculture and Food and is based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work is focused supporting society transition to a more sustainable future, working with industry and government to use integrated systems approaches to address our grand challenges. Her expertise is in value chain management and analysis, which she applies in a range of challenges including food security, sustainability, climate adaptation and social inclusion. Lilly is a co-editor of the Towards a state of the food system report for Australia and a co-author of the ‘Retail Environments’ insight chapter of the report.
Is there another chance to join?
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