Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome.

Welcome to the Spira Food System Academy.

We bring you practical, systems-based learning for those working to transform food systems from the ground up.

Whether you’re just beginning or deep in community food planning, our courses help you create real, local change.

💡 Start with our Free Mini-Course — Understand the food system and how to shape it.

🧰 Core Courses — Short, focused trainings for professionals and community leaders.

🎯 Premium Masterclasses — Deep-dive in person sessions with templates, case studies, and optional advisory support.

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About the Spira Food System Academy

Who is the Spira Food System Academy for?
Anyone can join, we have content to help you no matter what stage of your food systems journey you are on ranging from free resources to paid courses and coaching. You join the academy then you can access courses and coaching.

Who is Food Foundations for?
The Food Foundations course is ideally for people that want to learn more about food systems to effect change in their work. Some of the people that have taken part in our courses include:  nutritionists, dietitians, people working in municipalities, central government, food business operators, food industry groups, community food initiatives (food rescue agencies, social enterprises, charities etc), sustainable food initiatives, food business start ups and many more!

Who is your trainer?
Emily King, respected thought leader and food systems expert oversees and creates the content.  We also have other experts and organisations involved in delivering content, depending on the course.

Good reasons to join the Spira Food System Academy: 

  • Get access to free webinars, resources and ideas for food systems change

  • A place to connect with other professionals working in the food system

  • You can sign up for courses and coaching to help you on your food system journey

  • You can do this from anywhere in the world!

Courses

Click on the course you are interested in.

  • $250

Coaching with Emily King

  • Coaching session

One to one coaching gets you results for your specific challenges you're facing as you fix the food system. You’ll learn from an internationally recognised thought leader in food systems change, Emily King who has more than a decade’s experience working in and researching food systems. Emily created Spira in 2017 to help more businesses and organisations throughout Aotearoa cultivate change in the food system.

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Food Systems Change - A Masterclass with Emily King

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  • 1 Lesson

Food Systems Change - A Master class with Emily King is a foundational course to get you thriving as you fix the food system. This is an in person training with Emily. Through deeper understanding of the issues facing our food system (such as soil, water, climate change, food waste, packaging, unhealthy food and lack of access to food), you will learn how we can better effect change in your job / challenge / work.

  • Free

Resources to help you fix the food system

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  • 4 files

This package of resources is designed to get your started on your food system journey. It contains details of the book, Re-food by Emily King and free resources to download and watch or listen to, including webinars, podcasts and articles. These free resources give an overview of food systems, with easy to follow ideas and inspiration to fix the food system.

  • Free

The EAT-Lancet 2025 Report for Aotearoa New Zealand

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  • 1 file

Emily King (Spira) and Dr Kelly Garton discuss the latest EAT-Lancet Commission and its implications for Aotearoa New Zealand.

  • Free

Webinar: Find your food system focus

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  • 2 files

In this 40 minute webinar you will better understand your sphere of influence in the food system and where you can best effect change. Using the workbook and webinar together you can take action no matter where you sit in the food system, or what you are working on.

  • Free

Webinar: Food resilience and disaster preparedness

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  • 1 file

In this 35 minute webinar Emily King takes you through food resilience and disaster preparedness. There are overlaps and differences between both. Emily explains what community groups and municipalities can do to ensure they apply these learnings. MP4 file with Audio, Slides and voice captions are included. Files are copyright Spira Ltd 2024, for download by the customer only, not to be distributed, shared, or sold.

  • Free

Webinar: food systems and climate change

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  • 1 file

In this 40 minute webinar, Emily King takes you through the role of climate change and the food system. She charts an optimistic path forward looking at how systems thinking can help solve some of our biggest challenges. MP4 file with Audio, Slides and voice captions are included. Files are copyright Spira Ltd 2024, for download by the customer only, not to be distributed, shared, or sold.