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AFSA is expanding: Join our National Committee or sub-committees and working groups

April 1, 2022 by Food Sovereignty

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Agroecology, Community Supported Agriculture, Governance, Homepage feature, Indigenous, International, Legal Defence Fund, Peoples' Food Plan, Regulations, Research, Women Tagged With: AFSA, farming, food sovereignty, members, national committee, sub-committees, working groups

Declaration from the 2018 Food Sovereignty Convergence

October 18, 2018 by Tammi Jonas

We representatives of small-scale farmers, fishers, agricultural workers, indigenous peoples, women, youth, eaters, and NGOs came together from across Australia to meet on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal, Ngambri, and Ngarigu peoples, paying our respect to elders past and present. At the 2018 Food Sovereignty Convergence we celebrated the opportunity to meet each other […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, Food Sovereignty Convergence, Governance, Indigenous, International, President's report, Right to Food, Solidarity Economy, Women, Workers' rights Tagged With: AGM, convergence, declaration, national committee, solidarity

You know it’s women’s work when everyone is working together

February 4, 2018 by Tammi Jonas

  You could see our diversity in the hodge podge, mismatched layers of clothing worn to protect us from the record-setting temperatures that never climbed above -8C, and later in our dorm rooms at night as the layers came off, leaving us as we were, stripped back to basics and a dozen tongues. We gathered […]

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, International, Women Tagged With: La Via Campesina, peasants

Farmer Profile: Rohan and Fiona from Gleneden Family Farm

June 20, 2017 by Food Sovereignty

Name and Farm: Rohan, Fiona, Eden & Jethro Morris from Gleneden Family Farm Where and what do you farm? We’re near Warwick, QLD and we’re a traditional and innovative mixed family farm with a wide variety of small enterprises. How is food sovereignty important to you? We would like to be able to earn our […]

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, Women

Why I’m with Fair Food Farmers United

March 14, 2014 by Nick Rose

Tammi Jonas… “My thoughts on what ‘fair food’ means & why I’m with Fair Food Farmers United and the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance. Join us to help bring fair food to ALL Australians!”

Filed Under: Fair Food Farmers United, Farmer profiles, Women Tagged With: Fair Food Farmers United, food advocacy organisations

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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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  • 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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