Agroecology

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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Submission to the Inquiry of the Agriculture and Water Resources Committee on growing Australian agriculture to $100bn by 2030

In 2019 the Minister for Agriculture asked the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Food Resources to inquire into and report ...
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A Food Sovereignty Approach to Preserving Biodiversity

The following presentation was delivered by AFSA President Tammi Jonas on 18 June 2020 in a webinar hosted by the ...
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Advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Intervention of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty at the working group on the post-2020 Global Biodversity Framework. AFSA ...
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The Willunga Agrarian Declaration

For 60,000 years Indigenous Australians have eaten food as their medicine, and yet today Australia, like most of the world, ...
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Agroecology and ‘Other Innovations’ – Australia on the wrong side of history

In April, AFSA attended a seminar hosted by the CSIRO in Canberra, giving the High Level Panel of Experts on ...
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Micro-organism & pollinators – our intervention at the UN

The following text was delivered by legendary peasant farmer, activist, and AFSA comrade Guy Kastler, fellow member of the International ...
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Biodiversity & Livestock: our intervention at the UN

The following text is the intervention delivered by AFSA President Tammi Jonas in regards to animal genetic resources for food ...
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Biodiversity and climate change – we need action now!

18 February 2018 AFSA President Tammi Jonas is with our allies in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty representing ...
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Then They Buy You – the Eat-Lancet Commission Report on Healthy Diets

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. What this homily so ...
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FSANZ proposes ‘licence to sell lettuce’ – AFSA says NO

On 3 May 2019, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) released an information paper on its proposed approach to a review of food safety standards in the Food Standards Code (the Review). The intention is to create a consistent and up-to-date approach to food safety management with regard to so-called “high-risk horticulture,” which includes a […]

NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing

On Friday 22 June 2018, AFSA attended the NSW Fresh Food Pricing Parliamentary Inquiry Hearing at Parliament House in Sydney. AFSA was selected and recognised as a key stakeholder in the food system by the parliamentary members in this Upper House inquiry. Tammi Jonas, president of AFSA, and our paralegal Sarah de Wit were welcomed […]

Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry

View AFSA’s entire submission here. The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – Domestic Poultry offers the first opportunity in 15 years to improve the minimum welfare standards for domestic poultry in Australia. It provides the chance to modify Australian standards to reflect current animal welfare science and […]

Poultry Welfare Reforms Fact Sheet

The Codes for animal welfare for poultry are being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. The result will be one Australia-wide Code on animal welfare for poultry. Two main documents, along with an independent Farmed Bird Science Welfare Review and many supporting papers, have been released for public comment: The Draft Standards […]

Collective action in support of small-scale, regenerative farmers

In support of small-scale, regenerative farmers in Victoria, the following organisations have submitted responses to the Victorian Government’s Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries Draft Planning Provisions. Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance Victorian Farmers Market Association Melbourne Farmers Market Association Regenerative Agriculture Industry Group City of Whittlesea