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Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry

May 17, 2018 by Courtney Young

View AFSA’s entire submission here.  The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – Domestic Poultry offers the first opportunity in 15 years to improve the minimum welfare standards for domestic poultry in Australia. It provides the chance to modify Australian standards to reflect current animal welfare science and […]

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, Legal Defence Fund, Submissions

Administration Assistant required!

May 14, 2018 by Courtney Young

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is a collaboration of organisations and individuals working towards a food system in which everyone has the opportunity to access, create, and manage their food supply from paddock to plate. AFSA is seeking an enthusiastic and organised administration assistant to help us build a food sovereign future in Australia. Passion for […]

Filed Under: Governance

IPC Statement from Paarl (Cape Town)

April 12, 2018 by Courtney Young

This statement was written by the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) in Paarl (Cape Town), South Africa, at the General Meeting in March 2018. We, the representatives of peasants and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, Indigenous Peoples, and food […]

Filed Under: International

IPC General Meeting Report

April 11, 2018 by Courtney Young

Tammi Jonas, AFSA President Katarina Munksgaard, International Liaison The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) consists of a plethora of civil society organisations from all over the world that are all social movement led. They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, International

Small-scale, regenerative grain growers not supported by the GRDC

February 23, 2018 by Courtney Young

The Australian Government’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) recently released their Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) Plan for the next five years. The GRDC’s purpose is to ‘invest in research, development and extension to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers’. AFSA provided some feedback to the plan to ensure the plight of small-scale, regenerative […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, Fair Food Farmers United

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Local Laws submission to defend the right to common resources

Last week AFSA made a submission to the Hepburn Shire Council to defend residents’ rights to forage, collect firewood, have more than 20 chooks, and salvage materials from the tip and roadside without need for a permit. We were concerned that these laws originated from overzealous risk management policies rather than residents’ interests. Further, they […]

FSANZ proposes ‘licence to sell lettuce’ – AFSA says NO

On 3 May 2019, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) released an information paper on its proposed approach to a review of food safety standards in the Food Standards Code (the Review). The intention is to create a consistent and up-to-date approach to food safety management with regard to so-called “high-risk horticulture,” which includes a […]

NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing

On Friday 22 June 2018, AFSA attended the NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing at Parliament House in Sydney. AFSA was selected and recognised as a key stakeholder in the food system by the parliamentary members in this Upper House inquiry. Tammi Jonas, president of AFSA, and our paralegal Sarah de Wit were welcomed […]

Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry

View AFSA’s entire submission here.  The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – Domestic Poultry offers the first opportunity in 15 years to improve the minimum welfare standards for domestic poultry in Australia. It provides the chance to modify Australian standards to reflect current animal welfare science and […]

Poultry Welfare Reforms Fact Sheet

The Codes for animal welfare for poultry are being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. The result will be one Australia-wide Code on animal welfare for poultry. Two main documents, along with an independent Farmed Bird Science Welfare Review and many supporting papers, have been released for public comment: The Draft Standards […]

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  • Solidarity Session 13 – Emerging tech with Friends of the Earth April 6, 2021
  • Contribute to AFSA’s next book! April 1, 2021
  • Stakeholder Open Webinar – Sustainable Agriculture – 23 March March 17, 2021
  • Intervention on the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for support to peasants and indigenous peoples’ as stewards of biodversity February 26, 2021
  • Submission to the Independent Review of the Agvet Chemicals regulatory system February 15, 2021

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