Our approach
We’re setting out to address the root causes of food insecurity in Aotearoa and strive for a food secure Aotearoa.
People need food and we need big picture solutions.
Offering food assistance through food parcels, community meals and social supermarkets is a compassionate response to the need in our communities. These responses do not create food security as they do not address the root causes of food insecurity.
A Food Secure community is one that at all times and for all people has access and agency to enough nourishing, afforadable, sustainably sourced, culturally appropriate kai to meet their daily activities.
Our current systems do not deliver this, and cannot in their current form. We are all invited to work towards reimagining our systems so that they can deliver food secure communities across Aotearoa.
Kore Hiakai is committed to shining a light on the current experience of food insecurity across Aotearoa whilst also encouraging us to imagine systems and pathways to create food secure communities.
Food insecurity is about having an inadequate resource to meet the cost of living needs of your whānau. While increasing incomes can help, alone it will not solve Aotearoa’s food inequalities. This is a ‘wicked’ problem – it’s complex, interconnected with other social issues, and is hard to define and measure. Ending food poverty in New Zealand will require a collaborative approach – which makes use of numerous, innovative, interconnected, cross-sector initiatives.
E kore e taea e te whenu kotahi ki te raranga i te whāriki kia mōhio tātou ki a tātou.
Mā te mahi tahi o ngā whenu, mā te mahi tahi o ngā kairaranga, ka oti tēnei whāriki.
I te otinga me titiro tātou ki ngā mea pai ka puta mai.
Ā tōna wā,me titiro hoki ki ngā raranga i makere nā te mea, he kōrero anō kei reira.
The tapestry of understanding cannot be woven by one strand alone.
Only by the working together of strands and the working together of weavers will such a tapestry be completed.
With its completion let us look at the good that comes from it.
In time we should also look at those stitches which have been dropped, because they also have a message.