Sometimes, it's hard to keep up with the good news. Here's a brief, June roundup for those interested in farming, how software enables community food systems and urban open space.
SBS television reveals people living in an Australian suburban food desert as social enterprises do their best to fill the food provisioning gaps where governments fail…
A diverse food system is necessary to creating a secure food supply says Merran Laver…
Story by Nick Rose, May 2015.
Australia’s first food politics documentary, Fair Food, has been screened over 20 times since February this year to a combined audience of 1700 people. AFSA co-produced this documentary with Melbourne-based food publishers The Field Institute.
Story by Tammi Jonas, AFSA President, May 2015
It’s hard to acknowledge that your food might be unfair, but that’s the realization farmers who are using unscrupulous labour-hire contractors are facing after last Monday’s expose on Four Corners.
Story by Tammi Jonas, AFSA President, May 2015
In response to a regulatory environment that says Coca Cola is safe but raw milk is dangerous, over 40 Australian farmers, chefs, providores and assorted supporters, journalists and academics came together to discuss the potential for an Australian organisation similar to the American Farm to Consumer Defence Fund.
Story by Russ Grayson, April 2015. It is time for reform of local government’s handling of community food initiatives on public land. It is time, too, to reform councils’ handling of complaints about those enterprises…
What better place to talk community gardening than a building surrounded by all this food… a diverse forest of food at Fern Ave Community Garden for the ACFCGN’s national gathering...
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), supported by the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), express our strongest opposition to the forced removal of Aboriginal peoples from their communities, as proposed by the Western Australian government.
“It’s Australia’s first feature-length documentary that tells the story of our fair food pioneers, those creating a resilient and fair food and farming system,” says AFSA National Coordinator, Dr Nick Rose.
The proposed multi-million dollar expansion of Kernot Dairy, owned by the Chinese corporation Ningbo, is raising the ire of farmers and local residents in Gippsland on a day that commemorates the struggle of small farmers internationally.
Who better than someone with his own start-up agrienterprise focussing on growing and processing poultry on-farm, and ...., to become the spokesperson for Fair Food Farmers’ United?
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is a farmer-led civil society organisation of people working together towards socially-just and ecologically-sound food and agriculture systems that foster the democratic participation of Indigenous Peoples, smallholders, and local communities in decision making processes.
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