New Dispatch from Pandemic Research from the People Co-authored by the PReP Agroecologies group, including ASFA president Tammi Jonas, this piece explores the impacts of COVID-19 after nearly a year of the pandemic, which has highlighted injustices and system failures in healthcare, food production and distribution, workers’ rights, and social safety nets. It traces the […]
2020 National Committee Report
President’s Report 2020 has been a year like none other in living memory. For Australians, the year commenced with the Black Summer, or rather continued from the horror fire season that started many months earlier across the east coast. Just as the air cleared, a new plague in the form of coronavirus arrived, and we […]
Nominations to the AFSA National Committee for 2020-2021
Below are the nominations for AFSA’s 2020-2021 National Committee. Office Bearer Positions President – Tammi Jonas Renominating for the role of President, Tammi writes: I have been the AFSA President since 2014, I’m re-nominating for President in 2020 to continue to lend my strong female farmer’s voice to the fight for food sovereignty in Australia. […]
Food Sovereignty Convergence 2020 Schedule
Thurs 15 Oct, 11am-1pm (AEDT) Launch plenary Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19 Free for members and non-members – donation to PReP encouraged. Join your fellow Convergers after the panel discussion for a quick intro to Convergence and how the coming week will work. Thurs 15 Oct – Sat 17 Oct Online voting for […]
AFSA’s Response to the ACCC’s Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry
On 26 August 2020, the Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg and the Agricultural Minister David Littleproud announced that the ACCC would commence a three-month inquiry into bargaining power in supply chains for perishable agricultural goods in Australia. AFSA’s response highlighted the fragility of supply chains overreliant on the supermarket duopoly and just-in-time logistics, and the urgent need for agroecological, decentralised, and community-controlled […]
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