Australian Food Industry

Ottawa Valley Food Products (OVFP) is a company which manufactures and distributes low calorie and diet food items. The employees at OVFP consist of 100 production workers and 18 management and support staff. R J Jennings is amongst these individuals and has worked for OVFP for 31 years. Even though he is able to retire, Jennings does not wish to do so any time in the near future.

The aim of my food model is to make sure that that everyone stays healthy and eats the best for their health. As well as eating well, it encourages them to get plenty of exercises as it is one of the most important things of keeping your body healthy and drink plenty of water. Another aim of my food model is to make sure that everyone eats a balanced diet so my body can function properly.

Arnott’s is an organisation within the Australian food industry that comes under the food processing/manufacturing sector. In Australia, Arnott 's is the largest producer of biscuits and the second-largest supplier of snack food.

China in particular is the main Asia-Pacific country that Australia exports too. Raw and organic materials such as Iron ore, coal, crude petroleum and wool are major exported Australian products to China. In fact, around $102 billion dollars worth of exported goods and services are sold to china through

The food business is a broad range of businesses. Food is a basic need of consumers like clothing, and shelter. For a company to enter into the food business it has to assess the various segments of this business. These ranges from production of food, processing, and marketing. The company prior to entering a market in this line of business should assess its capabilities and compare these to the kind of needs of the consumers – would the customer be a processor, or a consumer?Is the product that the company can offer a raw material, processed food, or to serve a group of consumers who would like to eat and yet also need some little pleasure and not merely to satisfy their hunger?

The aim of the investigation is to determine the effect that these diverse cultures have had on the food and hospitality industry and the main cultural influences in Australia. The following focus questions will help guide the investigation.

The concerns for the 5% of the Australian population who are currently facing food insecurity are predominantly due to reduced access to nutritious food, particularly in rural and remote areas and low socio economic issues around affordability. However as a nation, Australia has more food than it needs and as such has numerous for opportunities for trade, including wheat, barley, diary and beef.

This paper will examine the Australian beef market, and whether it is an attractive market for South Korea to import from. An analysis of the current Australian and South Korean beef industries; the conditions required to produce beef most efficiently, following the Heckscher-Ohlin Model; tariffs that are involved with these trades, and the impact of the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement; environmental implications to Australia; as well as the cultural environment and geographic factor, will be discussed to determine whether South Korea is an attractive market for Australian beef.

Food security is one of the ongoing nutrition issue mainly in low income population groups. Univeristy students also fits in this category under different circumstances like first time home leavers, limited income due to part time and casual working hours (Hughes 2012) According to a recent Australian research study, food insecurity has negative impact on the learning outcomes and health of students . Food security is defined as the situation which arises when people have sufficient access to safe and nutritious food in order to meet their dietary needs for an active life (Radimer 2002). A new strategy was introduced by the Australian government in promoting food insecurity through tertiary education as a longterm economic challenge mostly

Food insecurity is a growing problem in Australia’s modern society even though many of us do not even realise. Nutrition is important for a healthy life style but when only two thirds of the land is actually farmable we start to see that less then 4% of people are actually getting all the nutrients needed, to actually be healthy. With Australian soil lacking phosphorus and nitrogen we find it harder to grow crops meaning more people in Australia are going hungry, or starting to become food insecure then there should be. Many factors can lead to someone becoming food insecure, these factors include; climate change, land degradation and water scarcity. Whilst Australia is still a food secure nation there are still many issues threatening our food security.

“We cant close the gap on health unless we talk about nutrition”. The issue of food security can have a negative impact on the wellbeing of individuals and families in Australia, there are a number of different groups who are more vulnerable to food insecurity than others, due to social whereabouts. Food insecurities is defined as “ access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life” by saying this Australia has been shown as food secure but this has people asking “why are certain groups and cultures running out of food to feed there families through out the year, if we are food secure?’ about 5% of Australians suffer from food insecurities this is usually caused by the access they have to food or the inadequate food

The industrial food system began with the McDonald brothers and fast food. The food Inc. video talks about the issues with food in supermarkets, and the main one is how it factory modified. The video also talks about how many big businesses there really are in our country that produce food, and how the small amount is it problem. The video states that the average supermarket has 47,000 food products in it. Another thing the video talks about is the condition of the animals that are being slaughtered and made into store product foods and the condition of the workplace in the factories. Most importantly the video talks about how farms are enslaved to these major industries, and have no choice but to stay and work for them because of various reasons.

It has been seen that society might be more plentiful when the country have more foreigners. Every country also have their own cultural beauties, with many customs and habits, with the traditional and modern features. Australian society is increasingly diverse thanks to the arrival of many cultures and traditions from more than 200 countries around the world. Many new cultural characteristics appeared and interference with the local culture, that have a profound impact to the life of immigrants as well as native speakers. Cultural sectors affected most from immigration is probably cuisine and festivals. This is a multicultural country, therefore it can be able to find enough dining style here. For example, the cuisine from barbecue to “English breakfasts”, or Chinese, Japan, Thailand, Greece food are easily served in Australia. The reason is that immigrants have brought culinary culture of their

The uncontrollable factors such as the Chinese economy, political climate, technological, socio-cultural and legal factors are first extrapolated showing that China is the second largest economy in the world and plays an influential role in the global economy. The robust economy has given rise to high levels of disposable income, leading to increased demand for foreign products, and in particular, Australian wine. Politics and the economy are closely inter-related, with the Chinese

Food production is the growth of animal and plant material, and the cropping for human consumption. In Australia food production has a major role of food production because most of food sold in Australia is grown and supplied by Australian farmers. Australia exports more than half of the food, while on the other hand more than 90% t of fruits and vegetables, meat from (cows) especially, milk and eggs which are then sold in supermarkets coming from the all different regions in Australia.