Useful Resources

This section of the website contains useful resources for people and organisations with an interest in food production in Remote Indigenous Communities.

Index

RIG News Archive

• RIG News #8 August 2010 – New look RIG News! News from food garden projects
• RIG News #7 June 2010 – Food gardens: Food security, health and wellbeing
• RIG News #6 April 2010
• RIG News #5 February 2010
• RIG News #4 December 2009
• RIG News #3 November 2009
• RIG News #2 October 2009 – Local Food Production, National Health Reform
• RIG News 31 October 2009 – Some funding opportunities for gardens

Useful tips and resources from our 2009 surveys

• Selecting food plants
• Building community participation in food gardens
• Snapshots – successful community garden projects
• RIG Information Survey, 2009 – Summary Findings, feedback to participants

RIG Network – partnerships and associations

• RIG Network partnership projects

Innovative Businesses

• Triodia Consultancy Services – Don Duggan
• Enterprise partnership developments for Hope Vale growers
• Wiradjuri Condobolin Corporation Ltd – Groundswell Compost Business

RIG Network – Submissions

• RIG Network – Submission to National Health Taskforce, 2009 – Recommendation 64 (nutrition and physical activity)

Research Articles

• From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Investigating Remote Aboriginal Community Gardens
• AFSAAP Conference Paper 2008: Social Innovation for Food Security – EduPlant SA Perspectives for Australia?
• Practical Principles – by Kim Courtenay
• More articles by Kim Courtenay

Conference Papers and Presentations

• AMSANT Fresh Food Summit Interim Report
• 2010-Cooking with ideas for the Summit
• EduPlant Presentation – 2008
• Midwest and Gascoyne Bush Food Network

Reports & resources from garden projects and programs

• Gunawirra Eingana Program Report on pre-school gardens

Useful reference materials for food gardens in northern and central Australia

• Some recommended books and links for Top end food gardens
• Some bush foods references
• Growing Food for Healthy Communities – a workbook by Josh Burns and Martin Anda (you can download this resource directly from our links page, go to the Permaculture section!)
  

Food security, health and nutrition – Useful references and articles

• 2010 Northern Territory Nutrition & Physical Activity Workshop
• The relationship between HIV and food security

Media

• Kim Courtenay writes about RIG Network, Broome Advertiser