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 […]
Standing with small-scale and peasant producers at the FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference
AFSA fights for food sovereignty on many fronts – including in the international arena where governments, civil society, and other actors negotiate goals and policies that affect food systems in Australia and around the world. As part of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, AFSA reps take the concerns of small-scale producers and grassroots […]
Declaration of the IPC on the draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
In late February, governments and civil society organisations, along with NGO and private sector representatives convened in Rome to discuss the Zero Draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The Framework will set the targets and directions for addressing an urgent problem – the ongoing loss of biodiversity that is crucial to the landscape functions […]
Advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Intervention of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty at the working group on the post-2020 Global Biodversity Framework. AFSA President Tammi Jonas is at the meetings of the working group of the Convention of Biodiversity, where civil society orgs, governments and others are working to develop the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. AFSA participates in […]
2019 President’s Report
What a delicious year of growing and eating and winning and celebrating it’s been for AFSA! And yet while the food sovereignty movement has had many successes, I’d like to acknowledge the very real struggles farmers across Australia, especially in the east, are facing in the worst climate-change-affected areas. The past year has seen the […]
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