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Global perspectives: An update on AFSA’s international advocacy

March 17, 2022 by Jess Power

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Homepage feature, International Tagged With: biodiversity, FAO, farming, food security, food sovereignty, gender equality, international

AFSA advocates for climate justice, agroecology and an end to industrial farming at FAO Asia Pacific Regional Conference

March 15, 2022 by Food Sovereignty

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 […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, International, International Submissions, Submissions Tagged With: Agroecology, Climate Change, climate justice, FAO, international

Solidarity and Corporate Capture of the UN Food Systems Summit

September 29, 2021 by Food Sovereignty

A panel of food systems advocates, including Costa Georgiadis (Gardening Australia), Tim McCartney (Barengi Gadjin Land Council), Charlie Arnott (Regenerative Journey podcast), Vivien Yii (Right to Food Coalition), and Tammi Jonas (AFSA) with Alexx Stuart (LowTox Life) discuss what the UNFSS might mean for First Peoples, small-scale farmers, the food insecure and city folk, and […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, Community Supported Agriculture, Food Waste, Governance, Indigenous, Peoples' Food Plan, Right to Food, Solidarity Economy Tagged With: Alexx Stuart, CFS, Charlie Arnott, Costa, Costa Georgiadis, CSM, FAO, food sovereignty, Food System, IPC, LowTox Life, Regenerative Journey podcast, Right to Food Coalition, Tim McCartney, UN, UN Food Systems Summit, United Nations

FAO Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: AFSA Report

January 29, 2019 by Tammi Jonas

Report on AFSA’s attendance at the FAO Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals FAO Headquarters, Rome, 21–23 November 2018   Katie Johnston Vice President, AFSA Background AFSA is a member of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), a global alliance […]

Filed Under: Agroecology, International Tagged With: biotech, FAO, innovation, Rome

The Fight for Farmers’ Rights to Seed

October 2, 2018 by Tammi Jonas

Background The idea of farmers’ rights arose in international governance in the early 1980s, a reaction to the increased demand for plant breeders’ rights, and to ensure farmers’ continued contribution to the global genetic pool – addressing the rights not of individuals, but of entire peoples. Its purpose was also to draw attention to the […]

Filed Under: International, President's report Tagged With: FAO, farmers rights, ITPGRFA, seed sovereignty, seed treaty

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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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