A world-first initiative on food sustainability bringing together representatives of the world’s major religious faiths, Indigenous leaders, sustainability activists and university academics has been launched in Sydney.The Food Faith initiative aims to respond to concerns around climate change, hunger, and loss of biodiversity, water restrictions and other environmental crises in which food and agriculture play a major role. Its founders include a Jewish Rabbi, Muslim Imam and leaders from the Catholic, Protestant, Hindu and Buddhist communities. The group has developed a series of recommendations for action that include limiting food waste, reducing meat consumption to lower carbon footprints, the sharing of excess food with organisations that can benefit from it, building links with community supported agriculture, and bans on the use of endangered plant and animal ingredients in food and medicines.

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