Useful Resources
This section of the website contains useful resources for people and organisations with an interest in food production in Remote Indigenous Communities – also visit the Links page to access useful resources from a range of other organisations and websites.
Index
» RIG News
» RIG Workshops and Events – News and Proceedings
» Useful Reports and Resources
» Submissions
» Media
RIG News
- RIG News #16 – December 2011 – Enterprise/training stories and CPD programs and events
- RIG News #15 – October 2011 – Farm Stories
- RIG News #14 – August 2011 – Garden Stories
- RIG News #13 – June/July 2011 – National Food Plan & other developments
- RIG News #12 – April 2011 – Carbon Chain’s & other circuit breakers for local action
- RIG News #11 February 2011 – The Summer that’s been and food security in Australia
- RIG News #10 December 2010 – CDEP Best Practice Workshop and other news
- RIG News #9 October 2010 – Feature Edition on Indigenous agricultural and garden enterprises
- 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
RIG Workshops and Events – News and Proceedings
Dietitians Association of Australia, NT Branch, Health and Life Skills Gardens CPD Event, July 29 2011 – information brochure – click here, Seminar Program – click here
Useful Garden Resources for Top End & Arid Australia – presentation/handout from workshop, July 2011
2011 CDEP National Conference – Vision to Action, Alice Springs, April 2011 – A Fawcett, RIG Network – Workshop presentation “Down and Dirty in the Garden – Planning for success and what is it?” (click on title to download)
NEW - CDEP Workshop Proceedings – “Best Practice and New Opportunities – Local Food Gardens, Food Systems and Horticulture”, November 11 & 12, 2010, Darwin.
Workshop Presentations – Day One
- Dr Tom Calma’s welcome address (video)
- John Paterson, Executive Officer, AMSANT, welcome address
- Anthea Fawcett, RIG Network, Workshop Overview & Approach to the two days
- Alex Debono, Community Development Officer – Market Gardens, West Arnhem Shire Council
- James Bulbert, Regional Manager, Landcare & Horticulture, Roper Gulf Shire
- David Boehme, Clean Bush Food Cultivation
- Centrefarm presentation (presented by Tim West, NTHA)
- Anthea Fawcett, New tools and approaches – quick ideas for group discussion
- Rod Cordell, Jobfind Centres Australia, Wadeye, New Gardening visual teaching resource
- DRAFT Gardening visual teaching resource – 23 visual panels, for comment & suggestions please!
Workshop Presentations – Day Two
- Dr Julie Brimblecombe & Megan Ferguson, Menzies School of Health Research, Food Security Research Initiatives
- Carrie Turner, Nutrition Policy Officer, NT Dept. of Health and Families, Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs
- Shaun Fowler, Darwin Regional Indigenous Advancement & CDEP Inc, CDEP Training – Issues and Opportunities
- David Garner, Ambrose Solutions, Strategic Planning Issues – Effective Projects
- Shaun Fowler, Case Study: An integrated approach to strategic project planning
- Anthea Fawcett, Potential funding and other sources of support, is there a fit?
- Gianna Bonis-Profumo, Community Development Officer – Nutrition, Red Cross, Bagot After School Garden
- Alison Lorraine, The Fred Hollows Foundation, Kukumbat gudwun daga, ‘Really Cooking Good Food’
- Graham Bidstrup, CEO Jimmy Little Foundation, Thumbs Up! Good food long life program
Useful Reports and Resources
Useful tips and resources from our 2009 surveys
- RIG Information Survey, 2009 – Summary of Findings
- Selecting food plants
- Building community participation in food gardens
- Snapshots – successful community garden projects
RIG Network – partnerships and associations
Innovative Businesses
- Triodia Consultancy Capability Statement
- Triodia Consultancy Services – Don Duggan
- Enterprise partnership developments for Hope Vale growers
- Wiradjuri Condobolin Corporation Ltd – Groundswell Compost Business
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
- Power Plants Program – Alice Springs Desert Park
- The Desert Farm – Alice Springs Desert Park
- 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!)
- Alice Springs Vegie Garden Companion – A handbook for growing food in arid Australia
Food security, health and nutrition – Useful references and articles
- 2010 Northern Territory Nutrition & Physical Activity Workshop
- The relationship between HIV and food security
Submissions
- Submission in response to the National Food Plan Issues Paper
- Attachments: Submission in response to the National Food Plan Issues Paper
- Submission to Commonwealth Indigenous Economic Development Strategy, December 2010
- RIG Network – Submission to National Health Reform Taskforce, 2009 – Recommendation 64 (nutrition and physical activity