Modern Australian

Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader

  • Written by Ferne Edwards, Honorary Associate, RMIT University

Food sharing is experiencing a renaissance in cities around the world. By food sharing, we mean the collaborative growing, cooking, eating and distributing of food as well as sharing food-related skills, spaces and tools.

This is nothing new, of course, but new socio-technologies are being used to reshape food-sharing opportunities. These range...