Food sovereignty, pandemics, and public health Food sovereignty means having control over where our food comes from and how it’s grown. It means being able to build strong, connected local food systems with accountability and mutual support between growers, distributers, and eaters. As supply chains are disrupted and eaters face supermarket chaos, current events […]
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 […]
Baw Baw Food Security Coalition
“Food security is an individual or community’s ability to access healthy, affordable and appropriate food. Food insecurity can therefore be defined as having limited or irregular access to safe and secure nutritional food from a non-emergency source. Food insecurity has been prioritised in the Central West Gippsland region in 2007. Subsequently, research and food system […]
Towards increased diversity in our food supply
Simran Sethi, an environmental journalist from the US, discussed the recent global decrease in food diversity in an ABC Lateline interview.
Feeding Struggle Street: How Australia’s hidden hungry are deserted by our food system
SBS television reveals people living in an Australian suburban food desert as social enterprises do their best to fill the food provisioning gaps where governments fail…