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 […]
Global perspectives: An update on AFSA’s international advocacy
AFSA National Committee member and International Liaison, Georgina Mulcahy, provides an update on taking the fight for food sovereignty global. AFSA joins the European Coordination of La Via Campesina to extend it’s deepest solidarity to the people of Ukraine and calls for the strict respect of human rights. Land for food, not for bombing! Peasants […]
Advice to AFSA members and the general public: Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV)
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) flags climate change and intensive livestock as key causes of concern in the current outbreak of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) across four Australian states. AFSA is calling on the Australian Government and Industry to acknowledge the risks associated with industrial agriculture on climate, farmers, livestock and public health. Some […]
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 World Wildlife Fund, the World Health Organisation, and the Convention on Biological Diversity for an audience of 450 UN organisations, NGOs, and social movements – ‘Protect and Preserve Nature, the Source of Human Health: Stepping […]