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All AFSA Submissions

  • Agricultural Competitiveness Taskforce
  • Senate Standing Committees on Economics
  • Regulatory Burden in Agriculture
  • WA Inquiry into mechanisms for compensation for economic loss to farmers in WA caused by contamination by genetically modified material
  • Review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Domestic Poultry
  • Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries Draft Planning Provisions
  • NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000
  • Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning regarding the Victorian Planning Provisions Reforms
  • Proposed NSW State Environmental Planning Policy (Primary Production and Rural Development) and related planning reforms
  • Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry
  • Parliamentary Inquiry into Fresh Food Pricing New South Wales
  • Sugar labelling
  • The independence of regulatory decisions made by APVMA
  • Review of the operation of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Act 2013
  • Protecting Melbourne’s Strategic Agricultural Land
  • FSANZ Review of Food Safety Management
  • Submission on the Impact of Animal Rights Activism on Victorian Agriculture
  • Submission on the Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural protection) Bill 2019
  • Submission in relation to the Identification of Leading Practices in Ensuring Evidence-Based Regulation of Farm Practices that Impact Water Quality Outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef
  • Submission on the Victorian Sheep and Goat Duty Review
  • Hepburn Shire Draft Local Law #2
  • Property ID Reforms
  • FSANZ Soy Leghemoglobin Permission - Impossible Foods
  • Primary Production and Processing Requirements for high-risk horticulture
  • Submission on Growing Australian Agriculture to $100 Billion by 2030
  • Response to the ACCC’s Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry
  • Joint submission with Gene Ethics on the review of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines regulatory regime
  • JBS Australia’s proposed acquisition of Rivalea Holdings and Oxdale Dairy Enterprise
  • Submission to the Inquiry into the Protections within the Victorian Planning Framework
  • Submission on the agritourism and small-scale agriculture development: Proposed amendments to support farm businesses and regional economies
  • Planning for Melbourne's Green Wedges and Agricultural Land Submission
  • Definitions of Meat and Other Animal Products (raising AFSA’s concerns with labelling and composition of plant-based “meat”)
  • Changes to landscape rehydration infrastructure planning rules in NSW
  • Proposal P1052 – PPP Requirements for Horticulture (Berries, Leafy Vegetables and Melons)
  • ACT Capital Food & Fibre Strategy
  • Proposal to expand intensive aquaculture into Commonwealth waters
  • NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Food Supply and Production
  • Response to the National Biosecurity Strategy - Consultation draft
  • Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on the Application of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Australia

AFSA renews its request to be included in the Federal Food Policy Advisory Working Group

June 5, 2011 by Food Sovereignty

While we welcome the intention to conduct a broad national consultation, we remain concerned at the lack of transparency in the current process with the Food Policy Advisory Group. No minutes of its two meetings have been made public, for example.

Filed Under: Peoples' Food Plan, Submissions Tagged With: AFSA Letter, Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, National Food Plan

AFSA online questionnaire

September 14, 2010 by Food Sovereignty

What will be our key tasks for AFSA? Your feedback is helpful The AFSA is asking supporters & colleagues to help us define our key tasks and set our orientation in these new unchartered political waters. Please take 10-20 minutes to complete the AFSA online questionnaire by clicking here.

Filed Under: Submissions Tagged With: AFSA Questionnaire

Media Release – August 2010 Letter to Politicians

August 13, 2010 by Food Sovereignty

In August 2010, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance produced a letter supporting the participation of the social enterprise and small food business sector, as well as the community food sector, in the development of a national policy on food. The letter has been circulated and a number of organisations and individuals active in food systems, […]

Filed Under: Media Releases, Peoples' Food Plan, Press, Submissions Tagged With: AFSA, Letter to Politicians, National Food Policy

Letter to Politicians – August 2010

August 12, 2010 by Food Sovereignty

Following is the text of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance letter to politicians distributed in August 2010… Re: National food policy Dear              , The undersigned organisations and individuals congratulate you on your recent announcement that Labor will implement a national food plan if re-elected. Given the intimate relationship between contemporary agricultural production and the many […]

Filed Under: Submissions Tagged With: food advocacy organisations, National Food Plan, National Food Policy

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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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  • AFSA denounces misinformation from the far right in response to the Victorian Government’s ALA Bill May 13, 2022
  • AFSA urges the Federal Government to change its definition of primary producers, to include smallholders seeking critical disaster recovery funding April 8, 2022

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