In December, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment released the draft report of an indpendent panel reviewing the regulatory framework for agricultural and veterinary (agvet) chemicals. In 2020, AFSA collaborated on submissions to the consultation informing the review, and last Friday attended the review meeting on the draft report. AFSA’s intervention advocated […]
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 […]
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 […]
Industrial ag’s spurious biosecurity claims revealed
AFSA and our partners recently negotiated a streamlined application process for pastured pig and poultry production… however, during the final stages in planning and negotiation, state administrators suddenly removed non-chicken poultry–ducks, quail, turkey, squab….from the proposed streamline application process on the basis of “biosecurity” concerns. AFSA commissioned a report by Robert G. Wallace, PhD to […]
MAJOR WIN FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS VICTORIA ANNOUNCES PLANNING REFORMS
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is celebrating a win for small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers – and everyone’s access to food grown in ethical and ecologically sound ways – with the Victorian Government’s announcement of the long-awaited reforms to the planning scheme. The reforms acknowledge the very low risk these systems pose to […]
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