Food insecurity in Wairarapa

Planalytics was pleased to launch its research report, ‘Waste Not, Want Not: Food Insecurity in Wairarapa’, last week at a gathering of local food stakeholders. Just in time to coincide with National Volunteer Week 2019! The research was undertaken on behalf of local social services agency, Connecting Communities Wairarapa, and funded by the Department of Internal Affairs (NZ).

What did we find? Well, like many regions in Aotearoa, food insecurity in Wairarapa is definitely present and there are indications it is getting worse for some sectors of our community. But, the region has an incredibly passionate, vibrant and active social services and volunteer community committed to addressing the issue. Collaboration and collectivism to share resources, learnings and stories is happening here, and stakeholders have plenty of ideas as to how increasing food security in Wairarapa could happen. Please do get in touch with us if you have any information or stories regarding food insecurity that you would like to share.