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MEDIA RELEASE: Annual Food Sovereignty Convergence to be held in Canberra October 23-24

October 16, 2017 by Courtney Young

Date of release: 16 October 2017 The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will host the annual Food Sovereignty Convergence in Canberra on the 23rd and 24th of October 2017 at the Burrungiri Cultural Centre. The convergence will provide an opportunity for attendees to debate, share stories, analyse, strategise and plan towards building a fair food […]

Filed Under: Fair Food Week, Media Releases

President Tammi Jonas rejects changes to the proposed new planning provisions by the Victorian Government on ABC’s Country Hour

October 4, 2017 by Katarina Munksgaard

Hear AFSA interim president Tammi Jonas talk about the inappropriateness of the proposed new planning provisions from the Victorian Government’s work on Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries. Listen to the interview here (Interview starts at 31:20)

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, In the News, Legal Defence Fund, Press

Victorian Government Welcomes Feedlots and Rejects Free Range Pigs & Poultry

October 2, 2017 by Tammi Jonas

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is deeply disappointed at substance of the proposed new planning provisions from the Victorian Government’s work on Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries. Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small-scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don’t appear to […]

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, Legal Defence Fund, Media Releases Tagged With: free range, intensive, permit, planning, PSAI

Civil Society Calls for Agroecology not GMOs at FAO Meeting in KL

September 15, 2017 by Tammi Jonas

Following is the final statement made by civil society organisations at the recent FAO meeting in Kuala Lumpur: FAO Regional Conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific 13 September 2017 Civil Society Statement  If we see biotech as part of a small farmer’s ‘toolbox’, then we must ask what it […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, GMO, International, Media Releases Tagged With: biotech, FAO, GMO, IPC, sustainable agriculture

MEDIA RELEASE: Australia’s first Slow Meat Symposium! Daylesford 3-5 September 2017

August 1, 2017 by Food Sovereignty

MEDIA RELEASE Date of release: Tuesday 1/8/17 Australia’s First Slow Meat Symposium in Daylesford 3-5 September 2017 The Slow Meat mantra is ‘eat better meat, less’. Australia’s first Slow Meat Symposium will bring together supporters, enablers, and enactors of the Slow Meat philosophy to discuss and debate all things around the ethical and ecologically-sound production and […]

Filed Under: Events, Fair Food Farmers United, Media Releases Tagged With: ethical meat, free-range meat, slow food, sustainable farming

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AFSA categorically rejects proposals to expand intensive aquaculture into Commonwealth waters

  The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) categorically rejects proposals to expand intensive aquaculture into Commonwealth waters. We need a radical paradigm shift away from Blue Economy to Blue Justice in fisheries, which is crucial for climate justice, encompassing economic, social, and environmental justice. The 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reported […]

AFSA responds to the ACT Capital Food and Fibre Strategy

  AFSA recently responded to the call for submissions to the ACT Capital Food and Fibre Strategy, which will “be a roadmap to delivering social, environmental and economic benefits based on secure, climate-resilient food and fibre production across in the ACT; and respond to the need to mitigate climate challenges via adaptation and diversification. It […]

A Licence to Sell Lettuce? ASFA Submission to FSANZ Proposal

  For three years FSANZ has been working on a proposal to more tightly regulate the production and sale of berries, leafy vegetables, and melons after several outbreaks of listeria, e coli, and salmonella from large monocultures. AFSA has provided feedback from the beginning on the need to approach any changes with a scale-appropriate lens […]

Protecting farmers and preserving farm land: Submission on the Protections within the Victorian Planning Framework

In October 2021 the Victorian Legislative Council tasked the Environment and Planning Committee to inquire into and report on: “the adequacy of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and Victorian planning framework in relation to planning and heritage protection”. Particular terms of reference were outlined for the Committee to address and AFSA provides its submission […]

AFSA supports proposed changes to landscape rehydration infrastructure planning rules in NSW

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) supports the proposed changes to landscape rehydration infrastructure planning rules and applauds the NSW Government’s initiative to allow farmers to restore streams on their property through landscape rehydration techniques, without the need for council approval. AFSA represents small and medium scale producers and our vision is to enable regenerative […]

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