Strategic Retreat, 12-14 December 2018 The National Committee of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) met for its sixth strategic planning retreat on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, paying our respect to elders past and present. We recognise the Original Owners and their role in caring for this land for over […]
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 […]
The Fight for Farmers’ Rights to Seed
Background The idea of farmers’ rights arose in international governance in the early 1980s, a reaction to the increased demand for plant breeders’ rights, and to ensure farmers’ continued contribution to the global genetic pool – addressing the rights not of individuals, but of entire peoples. Its purpose was also to draw attention to the […]
AFSA calls out biased reporting on Victorian planning reforms
Peter Hunt, a Weekly Times reporter, has treated the concerns of Victoria’s pastured livestock farmers over proposed planning reforms with total contempt, calling them ‘delusional.’ This seems unsurprising given Hunt spent many years in a policy role with the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF), a body whose reputation for attacking small-scale farmers is increasing. Pastured pig […]
‘The Regulation Diaries (7): Planning for Industrial Intensive Animal Agriculture’ by Tammi Jonas
This blog post was originally posted on AFSA President Tammi Jonas’ personal blog, Tammi Jonas: Food Ethics, as part of ‘The Regulation Diaries’ series. In October 2015, I visited Jo Stritch of Happy Valley Free Range, Livestock Farmer of the Year in 2014. Jo had just been ordered to remove all her pigs from her […]
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