International

In August 2016 AFSA was provisionally accepted as a member of La Via Campesina (LVC), the leading voice of the global food sovereignty movement. LVC brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate-driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and nature.

AFSA is also a proud member of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty

and

Urgenci: the International Network of Community Supported Agriculture.

International news…

AFSA is expanding: Join our National Committee or sub-committees and working groups

Join our team: AFSA National Committee We are seeking nominations from people interested in joining our National Committee. We have ...
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Global perspectives: An update on AFSA’s international advocacy

AFSA National Committee member and International Liaison, Georgina Mulcahy, provides an update on taking the fight for food sovereignty global ...
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AFSA advocates for climate justice, agroecology and an end to industrial farming at FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference

The FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference was held in a hybrid format in March 2022. AFSA sits on the Steering ...
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2021 National Committee Report

President’s Report Financial Report Membership Report Legal Defence Fund Farming on Other People’s Land (FOOPL) AFSA in the Global Food ...
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Intervention on the the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiverisity

Last night, 24 May, as part of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), AFSA addresssed the meeting of ...
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Stakeholder Open Webinar – Sustainable Agriculture – 23 March

As part of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a series of Stakeholder Open Webinar is being held during 2021. This ...
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Intervention on the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for support to peasants and indigenous peoples’ as stewards of biodversity

On February 18, as a member of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, AFSA delivered the following intervention to ...
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2020 National Committee Report

President’s Report 2020 has been a year like none other in living memory. For Australians, the year commenced with the ...
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Standing with small-scale and peasant producers at the FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference

AFSA fights for food sovereignty on many fronts - including in the international arena where governments, civil society, and other ...
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Declaration of the IPC on the draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

In late February, governments and civil society organisations, along with NGO and private sector representatives convened in Rome to discuss ...
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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 […]

AFSA opposes JBS acquisition of Rivalea

The proposed acquisition raises a number of concerns for AFSA and our directly-affected members—small and medium-scale pastured pig farmers in Victoria. The concerns centre around the certainty of continued access for service kills and a lack of choice, reflective of a lack of competition, in the state for small-scale farmers accessing service kills. At a […]