Elements and Performance Criteria
- Examine 'food security' issues in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community
- Investigate cost and availability of foods to the community in relation to local food sources
- Examine components of the food supply system in line with community requirements
- Examine promotion, marketing and advertising of food to the community
- Examine factors such as income, food storage and preparation resources in relation to their impact on health through food choice and food preparation
- Research community food preferences and consumption patterns to clarify knowledge and demand in relation to nutritional issues
- Examine methods of food production at the household and community levels
- Analyse food supply issues for the community
- Analyse community food supply and demand in relation to the Australian Dietary Guidelines
- Evaluate availability and access to the core food groups in relation to all sources of food for the community
- Evaluate nutritional value of available food supply against Australian Dietary Guidelines
- Evaluate food and nutrition practices/policies of community food services
- Analyse and evaluate local food production practices and barriers to local food production
- Formulate strategies to improve food supply
- Identify and discuss strategies to improve food supply to a local store and/or other community organisation
- Outline and discuss strategies to improve nutrition practices/policies in community food services
- Outline and discuss with the community strategies to promote nutritional health through improved food supply
- Research and discuss with the community as appropriate innovative methods of cultivating traditional and/or introduced foods
- Outline and discuss with the community ways for customers to influence food supply to community food services
- Identify strategies to circumvent barriers to food production and discuss with the community