More and more people are embracing Fair Food – healthy nutritious food that is produced locally - at an affordable price for consumers and with a fair return to farmers. Fair Food Week 2014 will run from 10-19 October and will celebrate the International Year of Family Farming.
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) today urged all candidates and parties for the 2014 Victorian state election to commit to a Local Food Act and Local Food Fund for Victoria. It is encouraging voters to sign an online petition which calls for a range of measures to promote food sovereignty in Victoria.
A new blueprint for the nation's food production is calling ...
On 19 July AFSA President and family farmer Michael Croft, ...
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New research published by the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance shows ...
In the October-November 2011 issue of Arena Magazine, Fran Murrell of MADGE and Nick Rose of AFSA discuss...
The AFSA and the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance today jointly published a media release as the Federal Government's consultation period on its Issues Paper for the National Food Plan draws to a close on 2 September.
AFSA National Coordinator Nick Rose and Greenpeace GM Wheat Campaigner Claire Parfitt had an article published on the Australian comment website and discussion forum, Online Opinion, on 13th June 2011.
In an important and timely new report released March 2011, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, has laid out a blue-print for how 9 billion people can be fed in accordance with the principles of both environmental sustainability, and social justice for the poorest people on earth.
Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig's National Food Policy Advisory Group has missed an opportunity. Its 'big food' members are unlikely to promote wider participation or embrace a new vision for the future of food and farming in Australia...
The Agroecology & 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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