Local foodshed resilience: Insights from the Lockyer Valley-Brisbane foodshed
FSH Webinar
FRIDAY, 15 August 2025
12:00 to 1:00PM AEST
ONLINE MS Teams
Local foodsheds play a vital role in supplying fresh, nutritious food to rural and urban communities, while supporting regional economies and social connections. Enhancing their resilience to disruptive events—such as floods, droughts, and pandemics—is essential to safeguarding these benefits. In this webinar we share the results of a study that looked into the resilience of the Lockyer Valley–Brisbane (LVB) foodshed, which experienced multiple overlapping disruptions over a five-year period.
Join us in this webinar as we hear about lessons for strengthening local foodshed resilience in other contexts and inform the development of integrated strategies to support food system sustainability and preparedness.
Who will you hear from?
Dr Peggy Schrobback, Speaker
Peggy is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, specialising in agricultural and food systems economics. Her work spans the supply, distribution, and demand of livestock, horticulture, fisheries, and aquaculture products. Peggy applies both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore productivity and efficiency, market and supply chain dynamics, consumer preferences, and the adoption of sustainable farming practices. Her research supports evidence-based decision-making across industry, policy, and regional development.
Emma-Kate Rose, Discussant
Emma-Kate (or EK for short) is currently the Executive Director of the Food Connect Foundation drawing on over 30 years’ experience working in community, business, social enterprise, climate change activism, food justice and bottom-up economic development. She joined Food Connect in 2009 as General Manager, and co-founded Food Connect Foundation and Food Connect Shed – a community-owned local food hub. EK is a Fellow of the Yunus Centre for Social Business at Griffith University, and past-President of the Queensland Social Enterprise Council.
Is there another chance to join?
The presentation part of this webinar will be recorded and be made available on this page for those who are not able to attend on the day. Discussions will not be recorded.
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