Bronwyn Horn University of Melbourne Transformative actors in Melbourne’s emerging value-based food systems. Bronwyn Horn University of Melbourne

Concepts & Methodology: Transition Incumbent food system Alternative food systems IA TA IA TA IA TA Transformative actor

Identified alternative food network

Ceres Fair Food’s alliances with other actors

Ceres: values mapped to strategies

Open Food Network’s alliances with other actors

Darebin’s Sustainable Food Officer’s alliances with other actors

Conclusions: Social and environmental harms of incumbent food systems are diverse and interconnected. Transformative actors are making the change. Actors form alliances with other actors with compatible value sets. This allows them to carry out strategies that can address harms of incumbent systems. Prioritisation of important values needs to be continually reassessed based on evidence of harms that have been addressed as the alternative system grows. Transparency as a transformative value: Shorter, localised and clearly documented supply chains enable customers to be empowered to support food systems that embed values that they hold. Physical or digital market set ups can achieve this.