Food Systems Change - Masterclass with Emily King, in person, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, Tuesday 19 August 2025. Tickets online at Humanitix.

Multiple challenges face our food system: climate change, lack of access to food, changes to laws around GMOs and the international political scene. Yet nationally we have a thriving group of regional and community food networks, farmers and growers, and great food businesses. What does it take to therefore reshape our food system so it can better face these challenges?

Join other professionals working and interested in food systems to learn more in this master class with Emily King.

About your trainer: Spira founder, Emily King, is a respected thought leader and speaker who contributes a voice for food system change, helping organisations and communities understand the impact food has on our environment and health - and the part we each have to play in cultivating change. Emily leads your training, calling on over a decade’s experience working in and researching food systems, and helping organisations throughout Aotearoa create positive change. In 2023 she wrote, Re-food the leading text on food systems change in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Purpose:

The purpose of this training is to give an overview of the food system from the environment food is grown in through to people having access to and eating food. By the end of the training all participants will have a broad understanding of the scope of the food system and their role in it. Participants will also understand a systems approach, their role in the system, and what their sphere of influence is in order to change that system.

Outcomes:

• Better understand the Aotearoa New Zealand food system and how it links into international and national trends.

• Better understand your own food system and your sphere of influence within that.

• Learn about systems approaches and how to tackle complex challenges within a system in order to create change.

• Meet and network with other professionals working in food systems change.

Up to date and relevant topics covered: climate change (adaptation and mitigation), food security, politics and food, systems thinking .

Details
This master class will take place in person in Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand

Tuesday 19 August 2025, Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland CBD.

Tickets via Humanitix