Inquiry into food security in Victoria: Submission by Monash University Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food in collaboration with the Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice

We write in regard to the Legal and Social Issues Committee inquiry into the impacts, drivers of, and solutions for, food security in Victoria. We are academics at Monash University in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) and Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice (CYPEP), a multi-disciplinary research centre (Faculty of Education), who have contributed to the evidence-base on food security in Victoria and Australia, its determinants, its impact on people’s lives, and the measurement of its prevalence and severity. Our submission draws upon our collective evidence.