Solidarity Sessions are back in 2021, starting on Wednesday 3 February, as we continue to explore how growers and eaters can build solidarity within and beyond the food sovereignty movement, to transform our food systems from the ground up. We’re excited to start this years’ sessions with Indigenous thinker, author, and academic Tyson Yunkaporta, to […]
A Food Sovereignty Approach to Preserving Biodiversity
The following presentation was delivered by AFSA President Tammi Jonas on 18 June 2020 in a webinar hosted by the World Wildlife Fund, the World Health Organisation, and the Convention on Biological Diversity for an audience of 450 UN organisations, NGOs, and social movements – ‘Protect and Preserve Nature, the Source of Human Health: Stepping […]
Declaration from the 2018 Food Sovereignty Convergence
We representatives of small-scale farmers, fishers, agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, women, youth, eaters, and NGOs came together from across Australia to meet on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngambri, and Ngarigu peoples, paying our respect to elders past and present. At the 2018 Food Sovereignty Convergence we celebrated the opportunity to meet each other […]
We Want Water Sovereignty for Australia!
The Murray Darling Basin’s capacity to provide water to all its communities is at risk. The Federal Government last week put forward an amendment to allow 70GL more than the 2012 Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) recommended be withdrawn for big irrigators’ consumption in the Northern Basin, an amendment that was voted down in the […]
Bruce Pascoe on Indigenous land management and regenerative farming
Bruce Pascoe, Bunurong man and highly acclaimed author of ‘Dark Emu: Black Seeds‘, sat down with AFSA President Tammi Jonas at the Food Sovereignty Convergence in Canberra, 2017. Bruce spoke about connection to country, respecting the land and the history and culture of people imbedded within it, and how we can work towards ‘conciliation’ as […]