Fostering Healthy Diets in Remote Communities
View
Monash University is a member of the Coalition for Healthy Remote Stores, an alliance of retail, health and academic organisations that works to improve the healthiness of food retail stores in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Following the release of the 2022 Food Policy Index, which assesses Australian governments on their policies for addressing unhealthy diets, the Coalition for Healthy Remote Stores issued a joint statement recommending a series of actions by Australian and Northern Territory governments to foster healthy food retail in remote communities, where work is needed to improve community health and manage preventable chronic disease.
Other SDGs:
Experimental Economics and Rodent Control
View
Monash Business School researchers in partnership with National University of Laos have used a ‘framed’ economic game in Laos to promote cooperation between farmers, reducing damage to rice crops and improving food security.
The project was implemented in 36 villages in the districts of Viengkham and Pakxeng, northern Laos, where farmers had been losing around 20 per cent of rice yields to rodents. The research showed households that participated in the game were significantly more likely to participate in rodent control training and collective rodent control activities, translating into significant reductions in damage to rice plots.
The project was supported with funding by the Federal Government’s Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
Natural Capital Investment Initiative
View
‘Natural capital’ is gaining traction as a way of making the value of nature visible to decision-makers in business, government and modern financial systems. However, currently Australia doesn’t have a comprehensive and consistent set of metrics to support widespread adoption of natural capital measurement.
The Natural Capital Investment Initiative in Climateworks Centre is working to fill this gap, including through the proof-of-concept Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue and options for encouraging natural capital measurement at the property level. The Initiative next aims to build the business case for land users to measure and improve their natural capital, and to support organisations’ ability to report nature-related impacts and dependencies.
Other SDGs:
