In this inspirational President’s Report AFSA President Tammi Jonas shares with us the results of her fact-finding mission to the US. In doing so she contextualises the many achievements of Fair Food advocates in Australia, and highlights the strong international ties that exist between supporters of the food sovereignty movement. We are not alone! I’ve […]
A smart, crowdsourced plan for a better food system
The Peoples’ Food Plan — conceived to reform the federal government’s proposed National Food Plan by including Australia’s smaller-scale farmers and the myriad small business, social enterprise and community-based food initiatives that populate our commercial and civil society — was Australia’s first crowdsourced policy directions document.
AFSA President’s Report, 2013-14
This is the report to be delivered by outgoing AFSA President, Michael Croft, at the AGM to be held on 18 November 2014, at Byron Bay Community Centre…
Nick Rose departs on Churchill Fellowship trip
Last year I was fortunate to be one of around 100 people in Australia awarded a Churchill Fellowship. My research trip is to investigate innovative models of urban agriculture in a variety of sites in the United States (Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit), as well as Toronto and a number of centres in Argentina …
The Fair Food Movement in Australia — an overview
Story by Dr Nick Rose[1] , April 2014 This paper – and the video presentation – was prepared for delegates to the 7th World Urban Forum, taking place in Medellin in Colombia, from 5th to 11th April, 2014. The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and the Food Alliance were successfully in securing a 2-hour workshop on […]
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