Indigenous food and nutrition security

The Indigenous food and nutrition security project will work closely with Indigenous organisations, Traditional owners and community to understand their priorities in relation to food and nutrition security.

Our research

The project will co-design a place-based case study to understand context-specific barriers, enablers and trade-offs and co-produce contextually and culturally appropriate solutions to address food and nutrition security.

In parallel, this project will support Indigenous science, knowledge, perspectives, and voices and provide a two-way learning opportunity that advances Indigenous scientific capability.

Benefits of our research

Understanding the issues and opportunities around food and nutrition is key to developing and implementing effective solutions to improve food and nutrition security for Indigenous people. This knowledge can also help research organisations to better understand the role they can play in research and development in this area.

The outcomes of this project will be informed by Indigenous partners and community, however outcomes may include strong partnerships, co-produced research that responds to community needs, understanding of policy barriers and informing of policy, identified opportunities for Indigenous-led enterprises, and strengthened capability of future leaders in Indigenous research, which may have an impact to the community beyond this project.

Why we are doing this research

The issues affecting food and nutrition security among Australian Indigenous people are complex and lie at the interface between social, cultural, economic, environmental and health domains.

In addition, there are important differences in the Indigenous and Western conceptualisation of food systems. Understanding these issues and differences is important to facilitate effective solutions.

The Indigenous food and nutrition security project is funded by CSIRO.

Want to learn more?

Contact Dr Sinead Boylan to learn more about this research.