AFSA Office Bearer Reports, 2015
2015 President’s Report Tammi Jonas It’s been an exhilarating and ...
Fair Food: Stories from a Movement Changing the World
Fair Food: Stories from a Movement Changing the World is a collection of the personal stories of regular people who live out the change they want to see in the world around them. It is the primer for anyone wanting to jump into Australia’s Fair Food movement. Edited by AFSA’s National Coordinator, Nick Rose, it operates as the handbook to the food sovereignty movement in this country.
Winter ‘Woodstock’ heralds revolution in Australian agriculture
Revolution was in the air last weekend at a remarkable gathering that ABC Gardening host Costa Georgiadis has coined ‘the Woodstock of Australian agriculture’. The first Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering, held in the central highlands of Victoria, was attended by 150 farmers, connectors, communicators, educators and eaters collectively striving for a fair food system that operates in the best interests of producers and consumers.
Fair Food Week – in your backyard this October!
This October the Australian City Farms and Community Garden Network will join the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) in celebrating Fair Food Week nation-wide.
The story of Fair Food — coming to a bookstore near you!
IN VERY EXCITING NEWS, University of Queensland Press will be publishing in September Australia's first anthology of the Fair Food movement, which in important respects is also a history of AFSA
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.
TPP: Time for Abbott to rethink this ‘preferential’ and ‘dangerous’ agreement
US ‘fast- tracking’ of the Trans-Pacific Partnership should ring alarm bells with the Australian public. Is the Abbott government on the brink of signing away our sovereign rights?
AFSA joins university students in the Fair Food Challenge
AFSA joins university students in urging Australian higher education institutions to implement sustainable food policies that support and encourage local, sustainable, ethical and fair procurement.
AFSA forges links with US Food Sovereignty movement
In this inspirational President's Report AFSA President Tammi Jonas shares ...
Smart thinking can drive local food network in Beechworth
Wooragee lamb producer Anne Stelling believes that it would take just a little co-operative smart thinking to work through some regulatory ‘roadblocks’ for the North East to develop a significant – and diverse – local food network.
Sharing Fair Food
Kerry Miller attended the showing of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance’s Fair Food — The Documentary and the seminar that followed it at an event organised by Bundanoon Community Garden. Her conclusion — it’s well worth seeing.
Action needed now to stop farm labour exploitation
The recent 4 Corners expose' of corrupt farm labour market practices calls for assertive action by government and reform of the 417 visa system to prevent what have been called 'slave-like' working conditions on farms and in pountry processing factories…
