Shaping the future of food
We’re here to help you build sustainability and food resilience into the foundations of what you do.
We know that global change starts by thinking local. We help organisations throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, and around the world, connect challenges at any part of their business to solutions that bring balance back into the way we produce, distribute and consume food.
Through education and training, you’ll discover how your organisation can meet commercial ambitions, while contributing to a system that better enables healthy people and a healthy planet.
The world needs new thinking and inspired leaders when it comes to cultivating change in our food system.
Are you ready to champion the change?
We can help you. We have webinars, resources, courses, coaching and monthly live chats to help you better understand the food system. Through a deeper understanding of our food system we know you can make better and more informed decisions that lead to better outcomes for your organisation, business and our food system.
Our trainings cover:
Food system transformation
Food resilience
Community food
Food systems and Climate change
Understand how you can help shape a better way to do business, for a better world.
a book by Emily King
Understand how food is grown and made and the issues facing our food systems, and discover the tools, insights and mindset changes that chart a path towards a healthier, more sustainable and more culturally appropriate food future.
In Re-food, author Emily King advocates for a food systems approach to Aotearoa New Zealand’s troubled food networks – one that takes into account the full paths and processes from the farm to the family table. It informs decisions about the best path forward to address the plural syndemics of food insecurity, malnutrition and obesity, environmental damage and cultural suitability.
Available 30 June 2023. Paperback or e-book, 336 pages by Mary Egan Publishing.
Re-food
Who we are
Meet Emily King
Advocate for food systems change
You’ll learn from an internationally recognised thought leader in food systems change. Environmental lawyer turned advocate, Emily has more than a decade’s experience working in and researching food systems. It’s a journey that’s taken her from investigating seed practices in Cuba to running a climate change adaptation forum focusing on resilient urban food in Germany, hunting out ways to change the food system.
Emily created Spira in 2017 to help more businesses and organisations throughout Aotearoa contribute to positive fixes in the food system.
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Where can you start to create change?
We’ve put together some helpful insights and advice to help tackle these common challenges.
“Spira provided expert insights and advice into food waste in Aotearoa, as well as the broader function and components of the food system, assisting greatly with the completion of, and adding immeasurable richness, to our mahi.”
“Emily King delivered an excellent workshop at the regional hui we ran for the Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance in Auckland in March 2023. We can thoroughly recommend Emily with her vast knowledge of food systems and how we can envisage them to be more sustainable. We really feel that the lively discussions that came about from the workshop helped to strengthen the partnership between food rescuers and corporate representatives at our hui. ”
Tailored coaching
Let’s collaborate
We work with food businesses and industry organisations wanting to lead the world with an authentic story of their food. Do you have a specific challenge and need help creating impactful change? We can offer tailored coaching for NGOs, health agencies, nutritionists, dieticians, councils, and community groups running projects that help people have access to sustainable and healthy food.
Speaking & events
Be inspired
Food connects us. It nourishes us. It’s a part of our heritage and shapes our cultures. Yet still, many of us are disconnected from the journey our food takes before it lands on our plates.
Spira founder, Emily, 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 the part we each have to play in cultivating change. She is a skilled facilitator of dialogues and conversations on crunchy food system topics - get in touch to book her to speak at your event.
Spira Digest - our writing
From 12 November 2021 country of origin food labeling is mandatory in New Zealand on fruit, vegetables, meat and some fish. Find out what you need to do as a food business to be ready for this.