Across Aotearoa, communities are reimagining their relationship with kai — drawing on deep knowledge, lived experience, and collective strength to shape food systems that reflect who they are and what they value.
Supporting this growing movement, the Healthy Families NZ workforce co-developed a national theory of change for Kai sovereignty: a shared framework to guide systems change grounded in local realities, mātauranga Māori, and whānau aspirations. It offers a clear and unified pathway for practitioners working in locally led food systems — setting out how we move together toward a future where communities can fully exercise their mana motuhake and reshape the kai system to be equitable, regenerative, culturally grounded, and resilient.
