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What is a solidarity economy?

Solidarity economies:

  • privilege connectedness and relationships over consumption and transactions
  • encourage social organization and democratic participation in decision making
  • decentralize governance so that people taking part have control
  • value the labour of growers, makers, and thinkers and eschew the accumulation of capital as a goal.

Solidarity-based systems already exist in many forms – community-supported agriculture (CSA), mutual assistance networks, worker-owned co-operatives.

A fuller description from RIPESS (the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy):  

the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) is an alternative to capitalism and authoritarian, state-dominated economic systems. In SSE ordinary people play an active role in shaping all of the dimensions of human life: economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental. SSE exists in all sectors of the economy: production, finance, distribution, exchange, consumption and governance. It also aims to transform the social and economic system that includes public, private and third sectors. SSE is not only about the poor, but strives to overcome inequalities, which includes all classes of society. SSE has the ability to take the best practices that exist in our present system (such as efficiency, use of technology and knowledge) and transform them to serve the welfare of the community based on different values and goals. SSE seeks systemic transformation that goes beyond superficial change in which the root oppressive structures and fundamental issues remain intact. 

In short, solidarity economies are a commitment to community, to localized economies focused on mutual benefit, sufficiency for all, and frugal yet radical abundance for everyone.

Catch AFSA’s fortnightly online Solidarity Economy Sessions to explore the many existing examples of social solidarity economies for discussions, resources, and ideas about how to grow more.

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Fair food for all: AFSA response to the NSW Inquiry into Food Production and Supply

Since we first published the People’s Food Plan in 2013, AFSA has continued to gather democratically to listen to the views of farmers and allies across the country and around the world to continue to deepen and strengthen our positions on what constitutes the most socially just and ecologically sound food and agriculture systems.  AFSA […]

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 […]

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Recent posts

  • Book review: Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement From The Heart August 3, 2022
  • Submission to the possible establishment of an independent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Queensland July 28, 2022
  • Take our survey to help shape your Peoples’ Food Plan! June 3, 2022
  • AFSA responds to an Inquiry on Australian Government’s application of the UNDRIP in Australia June 2, 2022
  • AFSA Values & Theory of Change May 26, 2022

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