In recent weeks, a number of concerned AFSA members have reached out to us seeking clarification on alarming claims perpetuated by far right organisations on social media about the Victorian Government’s Agriculture Legislation Amendments (ALA) Bill, which is currently sitting in Parliament. The claims made on social media assert that the Government is seeking […]
AFSA urges the Federal Government to change its definition of primary producers, to include smallholders seeking critical disaster recovery funding
8 April 2022 The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is calling on the Federal Government to reconsider its definition of primary producers under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA). This follows devastating flooding in Queensland and New South Wales, where AFSA farmer members have sought critical assistance under the DRFA, only to be rejected […]
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 a vacancy after the resignation of Vice President Nick Holliday, who is facing an even higher workload than usual in the face of major climate events impacting the farm. So while we are looking for […]
AFSA response to the National Biosecurity Strategy
AFSA has responded to the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s National Biosecurity Strategy. We express concern with the Strategy’s limitations which focus heavily on surveillance and control, and less on prevention of biosecurity threats in agriculture, particularly through continued practice of intensive livestock. We also flag that Australia’s current colonial agricultural […]
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 Committee which organised the Civil Society Consultation in advance of the conference, which produced two excellent papers on agroecology and One Health. Throughout the conference, within the theme of climate resilience civil society advocated for […]
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